Investigation of trends in synoptic patterns over Europe with artificial neural networks

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 23, Issue , 2010, Pages 107-112

  Michaelides, S ^a   Tymvios, F ^a   Charalambous, D ^a,b  

^a Meteorological Service of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPOTENTIAL; GEOSTATISTICS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 78649249864     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-23-107-2010     Document Type: Article

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