Multiple regimes in northern hemisphere height fields via mixture model clustering

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 3704-3723

  Smyth, Padhraic ^a,c   Ide, Kayo ^b   Ghil, Michael ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0033226736     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3704:MRINHH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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