Is the North Atlantic oscillation just a pink noise?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 323, Issue , 2003, Pages 705-714

  Fernández, Isabel ^a   Hernández, Carmen N ^a   Pacheco, José M ^a  

^a Campus de Tafira Baja ^*

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Hurst exponent; Meteorological noise; NAO; Power spectrum; Predictability

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OSCILLATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

METEOROLOGICAL NOISE;

METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 17044459727     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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