Mechanisms for the development of locally low-dimensional atmospheric dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1135-1156

  Oczkowski, Michael ^a   Szunyogh, Istvan ^b   Patil, D J ^b  

^a FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SHIFT; PROBLEM SOLVING; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM (GFS); LINEAR ERROR DYNAMICS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION (NCEP); NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY;

EID: 14944338900     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3403.1     Document Type: Article

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