Freeze probability of Florida in a regional climate model and climate indices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Goto Maeda, Yoshie ^a   Shin, D W ^a   O'Brien, James J ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLIMATE PATTERNS; DATA SETS; FLORIDA; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OBSERVED DATA; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL; REGIONAL MODELING; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; VARIABILITY PATTERNS;

RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849092541     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033720     Document Type: Article

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