Long-range prediction of the shipping season in Hudson Bay: A statistical approach

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1063-1075

  Tivy, Adrienne ^a   Alt, Bea ^b   Howell, Stephen ^a   Wilson, Katherine ^b   Yackel, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SHIPPING SEASON;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; FORECASTING METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHIPPING; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANADA; HUDSON BAY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 35948991934     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1038.1     Document Type: Article

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