Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-1-3-41

  Ghil, M ^a,b   Allen, M R ^c   Dettinger, M D ^d   Ide, K ^a   Kondrashov, D ^a   Mann, M E ^e   Robertson, A W ^a,f   Saunders, A ^a   Tian, Y ^a,g   Varadi, F ^a   Yiou, P ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f Earth Institute   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate; Dynamical systems; El Ni o; Prediction; Spectral analysis; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 0036523708     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000RG000092     Document Type: Article

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