A new analysis of variability and predictability of seasonal rainfall of central southern Africa for 1950-94

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1509-1530

  Mwale, Davison ^a   Gan, Thian Yew ^a   Shen, Samuel S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Central southern Africa; Genetic algorithm neural network; Indian Ocean; Scale averaged wavelet power; Sea surface temperature; Seasonal rainfall; Wavelet empirical orthogonal function analysis

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METEOROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL RAINFALL;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 7044241270     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1062     Document Type: Article

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