Notes and correspondence: Comments on "A surrogate ensemble study of climate reconstruction methods: Stochasticity and Robustness"

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2832-2838

  Rutherfo, Scott D ^a   Mann, Michael E ^b   Ammann, Caspar M ^c   Wahl, Eugene R ^d  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HYBRID METHOD; POOR PERFORMANCE; REGULARIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; STOCHASTICITY; TOTAL LEAST SQUARES; TRUNCATION PARAMETER;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77954370727     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3146.1     Document Type: Article

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