Observed versus simulated second-moment climate statistics in GCM verification problems

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 677-694

  Polyak, Ilya ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE STATISTICS; DIFFUSION EQUATION COEFFICIENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LINEAR REGRESISON MODEL; MODEL;

EID: 0030470819     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0677:OVSSMC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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