An improvement of seasonal climate prediction by regularized canonical correlation analysis

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1503-1512

  Lim, Yaeji ^a   Jo, Seongil ^a   Lee, Jaeyong ^a   Oh, Hee Seok ^a   Kang, Hyun Suk ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Canonical correlation analysis; Climate change; Empirical orthogonal function; Precipitation; Regularization

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA; HINDCASTS; REGIONAL SCALE; REGULARIZATION; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; SEASONAL PREDICTION;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84861804149     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2368     Document Type: Article

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