Application of cluster analysis to climate model performance metrics

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1666-1675

  Yokoi, Satoru ^a   Takayabu, Yukari N ^a   Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Endo, Hirokazu ^c   Ichikawa, Hiroki ^d   Inoue, Tomoshige ^e   Kimoto, Masahide ^a   Kosaka, Yu ^a   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Oshima, Kazuhiro ^f   Sato, Naoki ^b,g   Tsushima, Yoko ^b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate models; General circulation models; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; CLUSTERING RESULTS; DYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; K-MEANS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE METRICS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WARD METHOD;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80052351658     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAMC2643.1     Document Type: Article

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