Stochastic forcing of the wintertime extratropical flow

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 435-455

  Newman, Matthew ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a   Penland, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROMETERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; WHITE NOISE;

BAROTROPIC MODEL; FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION RELATION; ROSSBY WAVES; STOCHASTIC FORCING; WINTERTIME EXTRATROPICAL FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

FLOW; MODEL; STOCHASTIC PROCESS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW; BAROTROPIC MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; EXTRATROPICS;

EID: 0031063174     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0435:SFOTWE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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