Reduction of number of parameters and forecasting convective developments at Kolkata (22.53°N, 88.33°E), India during pre-monsoon season: An application of multivariate techniques

Indian Journal of Radio and Space Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 275-282

  Chatterjee, Subhra ^a   Ghosh, S ^b   De, U K ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College   (India)

Author keywords

Convective development (CD); Fair weather (FW); Linear discriminant analysis (LDA); Principal component analysis (PCA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857290935     PISSN: 03678393     EISSN: 0975105X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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