A Bayesian regression approach for predicting seasonal tropical cyclone activity over central North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4002-4013

  Chu, Pao Shin ^a   Zhao, Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; HURRICANES; LINEAR REGRESSION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STORMS;

BAYESIAN REGRESSION; LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL; SEASONAL TROPICAL CYCLONE;

TROPICS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34548126118     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4214.1     Document Type: Article

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