Atmospheric processes and observations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1810, 2003, Pages 1945-1960

  Hoskins, Brian J ^a   Kandel, R ^b   Mcdonald, A B ^e   Jarvis, P G ^c   Wakefield, M S K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d Spelthorne Lecture and Debating Soc   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Chaos; Climate; Energy; Extremes; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141888836     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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