Errors in estimating spherical harmonic coefficients from partially sampled GCM output

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 703-716

  Zwiers, F W ^a,c   Shen, S S ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GCM; SHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 0031399542     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050192     Document Type: Article

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