A climate predictability index and its applications

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1239-1242

  Rangarajan, Govindan ^a   Sant, Dhananjay A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CALCULATIONS; FRACTALS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY INDEX; CLIMATIC DYNAMICS; FRACTAL DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FRACTAL DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTABILITY INDEX; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0031138403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01058     Document Type: Article

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