The calculation of climatically relevant singular vectors in the presence of weather noise as applied to the ENSO problem

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2856-2868

  Kleeman, Richard ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a   Moore, Andrew M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

WEATHER NOISE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

EID: 0346688998     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2856:TCOCRS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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