Weather regimes and preferred transition paths in a three-level quasigeostrophic model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 568-587

  Kondrashov, Dmitri ^a   Ide, K ^a   Ghil, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIPLE FLOW REGIMES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRANSITION PATHS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW;

EID: 1942420659     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0568:WRAPTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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