Bootstrap estimated seasonal potential predictability of global temperature and precipitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Feng, X ^a   Delsole, T ^a   Houser, P ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; AUTOCORRELATED; BOOTSTRAP METHOD; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND AREAS; MOVING BLOCKS BOOTSTRAP; NON-GAUSSIAN; NORTH AMERICAN; SEASONAL MEAN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; BOOTSTRAP; POTENTIAL PREDICTABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMID TROPICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

GEOPHYSICS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EID: 79955027950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046511     Document Type: Article

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