Empirical orthogonal function analysis of the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a multi-scale climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Pritchard, Michael S ^a   Somerville, Richard C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL; CURRENT GENERATION; DIURNAL CYCLE; EIGEN MODES; EIGENSPECTRUM; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION DECOMPOSITIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTISCALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; RAIN;

NANOFLUIDICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 65649127772     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036964     Document Type: Article

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