A multivariate empirical-orthogonal-function-based measure of climate model performance

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Mu, Qiaozhen ^a   Jackson, Charles S ^a   Stoffa, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Numerical modeling; Skill scores

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 6444239256     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD004584     Document Type: Article

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