Statistical downscaling of rainfall data using sparse variable selection methods

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1363-1371

  Phatak, A ^a   Bates, B C ^a   Charles, S P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

L1 norm; Logistic regression; Sparse variable selection; Statistical downscaling; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; EMPIRICAL MEASURE; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; L1 NORM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; PARTIAL CORRELATION; RAINFALL DATA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; VARIABLE SELECTION; VARIABLE SELECTION METHODS;

RAIN;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

CORRELATION; DOWNSCALING; LOGISTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960110155     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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