New climate model metrics based on object-orientated pattern matching of rainfall

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Moise, Aurel F ^a   Delage, Francois P ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PATTERN MATCHING; RAIN;

ANALYSIS OF MEANS; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; ERROR DECOMPOSITION; FIELD STRUCTURES; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRID POINTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PATTERN-MATCHING TECHNIQUE; RAINFALL DATA; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; VOLUME; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79959833606     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015318     Document Type: Article

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