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11 IMSC Session Program
Statistical support for ad-hoc observations in atmospheric
synoptic typing
Wednesday - Parallel Session 5b
Charles Cuell
Aquatic Ecosystems Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada, Saskatoon,
Canada
Atmospheric synoptic typing is used to relate large scale atmospheric circulation to
small scale climate variables, such as local temperature and precipitation. Often, the
results of such a study are ad-hoc explanations of how certain characteristic
circulation patterns influence the climate variables. The ad-hoc explanations require
the linkages to be obvious and usually one dimensional.
This talk demonstrates how canonical correlation analysis can be implemented to
provide support for the ad-hoc linkages, and to find more complicated, multidimensional
linkages.
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