Observation of α-stable noise induced millennial climate changes from an ice-core record

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1441-1444

  Ditlevsen, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND;

LANGEVIN EQUATION; MILLENNIAL CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; THERMOHALINE OCEAN CIRCULATION; TRIGGERING MECHANISM;

EID: 0033562255     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900252     Document Type: Article

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