Prediction of extreme rainfall event using weather pattern recognition and support vector machine classifier

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 583-603

  Nayak, Munir Ahmad ^a,b   Ghosh, Subimal ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EXTREME EVENT; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAINFALL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84887316787     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-013-0867-3     Document Type: Article

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