Empirical stochastic models for the dominant climate statistics of a general circulation model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3436-3456

  Delsole, Timothy ^a   Hou, Arthur Y ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LINEARIZATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCES; EDDY STATISTICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033208559     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3436:ESMFTD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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