Can we see the wind? Statistical downscaling of historical sea surface winds in the subarctic northeast Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1511-1528

  Monahan, Adam H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Pacific Ocean; Probability forecasts models distributions; Statistical forecasting; Statistical techniques; Wind

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL FORECASTING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

VECTORS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GEOSTATISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEA SURFACE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

CANADA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84858176838     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4089.1     Document Type: Article

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