Comparing predictive power in climate data: Clustering matters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6849 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 39-55

  Steinhaeuser, Karsten ^a,b   Chawla, Nitesh V ^a   Ganguly, Auroop R ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE INDEX; CLIMATE PROCESS; CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; CLUSTERING METHODS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA SETS; DOMAIN EXPERTISE; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; FIELD DATA; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; LANDUSE CLASSIFICATIONS; NETWORK-BASED; PHYSICS-BASED; PREDICTIVE POWER; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 80052742200     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22922-0_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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