The search for a low-dimensional characterization of a local climate system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1713, 1996, Pages 1715-1750

  Sahay, Anupam ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029808754     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0076     Document Type: Article

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