Multiple attractors and chaotic itinerancy in a quasigeostrophic model with realistic topography: Implications for weather regimes and low-frequency variability

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2217-2231

  Itoh, Hisanori ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER EFFECTS;

CHAOTIC ITINERANCY; QUASI GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHER REGIME;

EID: 0030407664     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<2217:MAACII>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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