Probabilistic seasonal prediction of meteorological drought using the bootstrap and multivariate information

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1510-1522

  Behrangi, Ali ^a   Nguyen, Hai ^a   Granger, Stephanie ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Climatology; Drought; Seasonal forecasting; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; PROBABILISTIC ENSEMBLE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SEASONAL FORECASTING; STANDARD PRECIPITATION INDICES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

INFORMATION USE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943744348     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0162.1     Document Type: Article

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