Wavelet analysis on the variability, teleconnectivity, and predictability of the seasonal rainfall of Taiwan

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 162-175

  Kuo, Chun Chao ^a,b   Gan, Thian Yew ^b   Yu, Pao Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERANNUAL; LEADTIME; PACIFIC OCEAN; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SCALE-AVERAGED WAVELET POWER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SUMMARY STATISTIC; VALIDATION STAGES; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

RAIN;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA PROCESSING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77953244365     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2718.1     Document Type: Article

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