Climate Analysis, Modelling, and Regional Downscaling Using Self-Organizing Maps

Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 137-153

  Hewitson, Bruce C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Climate research community; Global climate model (GCM) simulations; Probability distribution function (PDF); Sea level pressure (SLP) spanning; SOM node array and high dimensional system behaviour; SOM based conditional interpolation; SOMs climate research core methodological tool; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA LEVEL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CLIMATE RESEARCH; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77955754129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470021699.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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