Consolidation of multimodel forecasts by ridge regression: Application to Pacific sea surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 6521-6538

  Peña, Malaquias ^a   van den Dool, Huug ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CONSOLIDATION; SEAWATER;

CONSOLIDATION METHODS; DEMETER; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; GRID POINTS; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; MULTI MODELS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLES; OPERATING CURVES; OPERATIONAL MODELS; RIDGE REGRESSIONS; SAMPLE SIZES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHORT PERIODS; STABLE WEIGHTS; TRAINING DATUM;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DEMETER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 60749103232     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2226.1     Document Type: Article

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