Predictable components and singular vectors

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1666-1678

  DelSole, Timothy ^a,b,d   Tippett, Michael K ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; VECTORS;

(0 , 1) VECTORS; (PL) PROPERTIES; (SEMI-)EMPIRICAL MODELS; AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); COMPONENT ANALYSIS; FORECAST UNCERTAINTIES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR MODELING; MAHALANOBIS; MONOTONICALLY; NOISE VARIANCE; PREDICTIVE INFORMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR); SIGNAL VARIANCE; SINGULAR VALUES; SINGULAR VECTORS; STOCHASTIC FORCING; UNCORRELATED; WHITENING TRANSFORMATION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

EID: 45849083538     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2401.1     Document Type: Article

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