Climate divisions for Alaska based on objective methods

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1276-1289

  Bieniek, Peter A ^a   Bhatt, Uma S ^a   Thoman, Richard L ^b   Angeloff, Heather ^a   Partain, James ^b   Papineau, John ^b   Fritsch, Frederick ^b   Holloway, Eric ^b   Walsh, John E ^a   Daly, Christopher ^c   Shulski, Martha ^d   Hufford, Gary ^b   Hill, David F ^c   Calos, Stavros ^c   Gens, Rudiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate classification regimes; Climate variability; Climatology; Regional effects; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BOUNDARY LINES; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC RESEARCH; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; COOK INLET; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LOCAL EXPERTS; NORTH PACIFIC; OBJECTIVE METHODS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION DATA; REGIONAL EFFECTS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTION INDICES; TEMPERATURE DATA; WEATHER STATIONS; WEST COAST;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864829548     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0168.1     Document Type: Article

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