Circular conditional autoregressive modeling of vector fields

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-53

  Modlin, Danny ^a   Fuentes, Montserrat ^a   Reich, Brian ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAR; Circular statistics; Cross covariance; Hurricane winds; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM SURGE; TORNADO; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84855926525     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1133     Document Type: Article

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