Climate informatics: Accelerating discovering in climate science with machine learning

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 32-40

  Monteleoni, Claire ^a   Schmidt, Gavin A ^b   McQuade, Scott ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

climate informatics; climate science; data mining; machine learning; statistics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; INFORMATICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STATISTICS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84890084020     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.50     Document Type: Article

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