Probabilistic forecasts of the onset of the north Australian wet season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3506-3520

  Lo, Fiona ^a   Wheeler, Matthew C ^a   Meinke, Holger ^b,c   Donald, Alexis ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANNUAL VARIATION; FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WET SEASON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 35748935249     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3473.1     Document Type: Article

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