Robust stochastic seasonal precipitation scenarios

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2077-2095

  Kioutsioukis, Ioannis ^a   Rapsomanikis, Spyridon ^a   Loupa, Rea ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Non stationary time series analysis; North Atlantic Oscillation; Southern Oscillation; Winter precipitation anomaly

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GREECE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDEX ANOMALY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX ANOMALY; WINTER PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

HINDCASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRESSURE FIELD; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTICITY; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250317971     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1351     Document Type: Article

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