Multivariate regression reconstruction and its sampling error for the quasi-global annual precipitation from 1900 to 2011

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3250-3268

  Shen, Samuel S P ^a   Tafolla, Nancy ^a   Smith, Thomas M ^b   Arkin, Phillip A ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Interpolation schemes; Optimization; Principal components analysis; Regression analysis; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; NANOFLUIDICS; OPTIMIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTERPOLATION SCHEMES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; LA NINA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906751698     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0301.1     Document Type: Article

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