Detecting the ITCZ in instantaneous satellite data using spatiotemporal statistical modeling: ITCZ climatology in the East Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 216-230

  Bain, Caroline L ^a   De Paz, Jorge ^a   Kramer, Jason ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a   Smyth, Padhraic ^a   Stern, Hal ^a   Wang, Chia Chi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Intertropical convergence zone; Pacific Ocean; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; TIME SERIES;

SATELLITES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 79251581280     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3716.1     Document Type: Article

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