A wavelet-based multiple linear regression model for forecasting monthly rainfall

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1898-1912

  He, Xinguang ^a,b,c   Guan, Huade ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xinping ^a,b,c   Simmons, Craig T ^b,c  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate indices; Forecasting; Monthly rainfall; South Australia; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; RAIN; TIME SERIES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE INDEX; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MONTHLY RAINFALLS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84899473212     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3809     Document Type: Article

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