Multivariate forecast of winter monsoon rainfall in India using SST anomaly as a predictor: Neurocomputing and statistical approaches;Prévision multivariée relative à la pluviosité de mousson d'hiver en Inde, utilisant l'anomalie de température de surface océanique (SST) en tant que prédicteur: calcul neuronal et approches statistiques

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 755-765

  Chattopadhyay, Goutami ^a   Chattopadhyay, Surajit ^b   Jain, Rajni ^c  

^a Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics   (India)

^b PAILAN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Exponential regression; Forecast; Sea surface temperature; Statistical assessment; Winter monsoon

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOCORRELATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

INDIA;

EID: 77957365482     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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