Cluster analysis of multimodel ensemble data over new England

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2452-2462

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b   Lakshmivarahan, S ^c  

^a Coop Inst Mesoscale Meteorol Studs ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING METHODS; MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLES; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODELS (RSM);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7744238612     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<2452:CAOMED>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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