Identification of dominant sources of sea level pressure for precipitation forecasting over Wales

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1002-1021

  Ahmadi, Azadeh ^a   Han, Dawei ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backward selection; Cross validation; Forward selection; Gamma test (GT); Precipitation prediction; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883579307     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2012.110     Document Type: Article

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