Seasonal predictability of daily rainfall characteristics in central northern Chile for dry-land management

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1938-1955

  Verbist, Koen ^a,b   Robertson, Andrew W ^c   Cornelis, Wim M ^a   Gabriels, Donald ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Water Center for Arid and Semi Arid Zones in Latin America and the Caribbean (CAZALAC)   (Chile)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COQUIMBO; DAILY RAINFALL; DOWNSCALING METHODS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTS; HIT RATE; LAND MANAGEMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; NORTHERN CHILE; PRECIPITATION DEFICITS; RAINFALL FREQUENCY; RAINFALL STATISTICS; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; WINTER RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LAND USE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; LAND MANAGEMENT; MARKOV CHAIN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHILE; COQUIMBO;

EID: 77957743202     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2372.1     Document Type: Article

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