Effects of time averaging on climate regimes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Teng, Qiaobin ^a   Monahan, Adam H ^a,b   Fyfe, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3220 Mathematical Geophysics: Nonlinear dynamics; 3319 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: General circulation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLIMATE REGIMES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ATMOSPHERE; TIME AVERAGING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 14044267373     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020840     Document Type: Article

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