Detecting atmospheric rivers in large climate datasets

PDAC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Petascal Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities, Co-located with SC'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7-14

  Byna, Surendra ^a   Prabhat, ^a   Wehner, Michael F ^a   Wu, Kesheng ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric rivers; Automatic detection of atmospheric rivers; Connected component labeling; Extreme climate events

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EVENT; CONNECTED COMPONENT LABELING; CONNECTED REGION; DATA SETS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; EFFICIENT DETECTION; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MESH POINTS; NEW MODEL; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; THRESHOLDING; WEATHER PHENOMENA; WIND DAMAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION; STORMS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84857990035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110205.2110208     Document Type: Conference Paper

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