Application of partial least squares regression to the diagnosis of year-to-year variations in Pacific Northwest snowpack and Atlantic hurricanes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Smoliak, Brian V ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Stoelinga, Mark T ^b   Mitchell, Todd P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b 3TIER Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION; ROBUST PATTERNS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL OCEAN; WASHINGTON STATE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES;

HURRICANES;

DATA SET; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HURRICANE EVENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOWPACK; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CASCADE RANGE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76349084715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041478     Document Type: Article

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