Modeling winter rainfall in Northwest India using a hidden Markov model: understanding occurrence of different states and their dynamical connections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 1003-1015

  Pal, Indrani ^a   Robertson, Andrew W ^b   Lall, Upmanu ^c   Cane, Mark A ^d  

^a University of Colorado at Denver   (United States)

^b Lamont Campus   (United States)

^c Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostics; Northwest India; Western disturbances; Winter precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939898001     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2178-5     Document Type: Article

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