Spatiotemporal monthly rainfall reconstruction via artificial neural network - Case study: South of Brazil

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 67-76

  Lucio, P S ^a,b   Conde, F C ^a,c   Cavalcanti, I F A ^d   Serrano, A I ^a   Ramos, A M ^a   Cardoso, A O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; METEOROLOGY; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247576161     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-10-67-2007     Document Type: Article

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