Forecasting the summer rainfall in North China using the year-to-year increment approach

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 532-539

  Fan, Ke ^a   Lin, Mei Jing ^a,b   Gao, Yu Zhong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Meteorological Center of Heilongjiang Province   (China)

Author keywords

Annual increment; North China precipitation prediction; Prediction skill

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL INCREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; HINDCAST; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NEW APPROACHES; NORTH CHINA PRECIPITATION PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION RATES; PREDICTION MODELS; PREDICTION SKILL; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL MEAN PRECIPITATIONS; SUMMER PRECIPITATIONS; SUMMER RAINFALLS;

BLOCK CODES; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HINDCASTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67349249349     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-009-0040-0     Document Type: Article

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