Weather regimes designed for local precipitation modeling: Application to the Mediterranean basin

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Vrac, Mathieu ^a   Yiou, Pascal ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING APPROACH; CLUSTERING METHODS; CORRELATION CLUSTERING; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; K-MEANS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; PRECIPITATION MODELING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RAIN GAUGES; REANALYSIS; SCALE PRECIPITATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; WEATHER REGIMES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINGAUGE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WEATHER;

FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77954486830     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012871     Document Type: Article

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