Measurement of climate complexity using sample entropy

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2131-2139

  Li, Shuangcheng ^a   Zhou, Qiaofu ^a   Wu, Shaohong ^b   Dai, Erfu ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate complexity; Daily temperature series; Sample entropy; Yunnan Province

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR MASSES; CLIMATE COMPLEXITY; SAMPLE ENTROPY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; ENTROPY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONSOON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

EID: 33845498301     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1357     Document Type: Article

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