Extremal principle of entropy production in the climate system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 553, 1999, Pages 79-90

  Pujol, T ^a   Llebot, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Box model; Climate; Entropy; Extremal dissipation principle

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; ENTROPY; MODEL; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0032914164     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55304     Document Type: Article

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