An assessment of circulation type classifications for precipitation distribution in Norway

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 35, Issue 9-12, 2010, Pages 395-402

  Tveito, Ole Einar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Frequency analysis; Norway; Precipitation; Weather types

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATOLOGICAL VALIDATION; DATA SETS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; NEURAL NETWORK METHOD; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; SPECIFIC DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MEASURES; STATISTICAL MOMENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LIBRARIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

NORWAY;

EID: 77954951633     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2010.03.044     Document Type: Article

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