Non-linear post-processing of numerical seasonal climate forecasts

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-218

  Finnis, Joel ^a   Hsieh, William W ^b   Lin, Hai ^c   Merryfield, William J ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Climate variability; Machine learning; Support vector regression; Teleconnection

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; NONLINEARITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863813564     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: 14809214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07055900.2012.667388     Document Type: Article

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