Confidence intervals and significance tests for spherical data derived from feature tracking

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1758-1777

  Hodges, Kevin I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FILE ORGANIZATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; STORMS; TESTING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE (EC); FEATURE TRACKING; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; KERNEL ESTIMATORS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO); QUAD TREES; RE ANALYSIS; RE SAMPLING; SPHERICAL TRIANGLES; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; SYSTEM TRAJECTORIES; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTION INDICES; TRACK DATA; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EASTERLY WAVE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTION; TRACKING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 45149085720     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2299.1     Document Type: Article

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