A comparison of statistical approaches for seasonal precipitation prediction in Pakistan

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1116-1132

  Ding, Ting ^a   Ke, Zongjian ^a  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL SUBSET REGRESSIONS (OSR); PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; STATISTICAL REGRESSION METHOD;

FORECASTING;

STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 84885823583     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00112.1     Document Type: Article

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