The "shukla-gutzler" method for estimating potential seasonal predictability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 822-831

  Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Feng, Xia ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Regression analysis; Seasonal forecasting; Seasonal variability; Statistical techniques; Statistics; Time series

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUTOCORRELATED PROCESS; EFFECTIVE TIME; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TIME-SCALES; TIMES SERIES; TYPICAL APPLICATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874958213     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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