An analog method for real-time forecasting of summer monsoon subseasonal variability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4149-4160

  Xavier, Prince K ^a   Goswami, B N ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WIND;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; SUBSEASONAL VARIATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 38049165537     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1854.1     Document Type: Article

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