Statistical downscaling prediction of sea surface winds over the global ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7938-7956

  Sun, Cangjie ^a   Monahan, Adam H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOY OBSERVATIONS; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PROBABILITY MODELING; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL PREDICTION;

LINEAR REGRESSION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

WIND EFFECTS;

DOWNSCALING; GEOSTATISTICS; GLOBAL OCEAN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEA SURFACE; VECTOR; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881247258     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00722.1     Document Type: Article

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