Ethiopian highlands crop-Climate prediction: 1979-2009

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1116-1126

  Jury, Mark R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LOADING PATTERNS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT; REGRESSION MAPS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CROPS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

TROPICS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP YIELD; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPLAND REGION; VEGETATION; ZONAL WIND;

ETHIOPIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84880286195     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0139.1     Document Type: Article

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