Predictability of linear coupled systems. Part II: An application to a simple model of tropical Atlantic variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1487-1503

  Chang, Ping ^a   Saravanan, R ^b   Wang, Faming ^a   Ji, Link ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE MODELS; PREDICTABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC VARIABILITY (TAV);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EIGENVALUE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 1542338894     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1487:POLCSP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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