Chaotic itinerancy with preferred transition routes appearing in an atmospheric model

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 274-292

  Itoh, Hisanori ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chaotic itinerancy; Low frequency variability; Preferred transition route; Weather regime

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000807587     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00064-X     Document Type: Article

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