Climate sensitivities via a Fokker-Planck adjoint approach

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 605, 2005, Pages 73-92

  Thuburn, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lorenz equations; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; LORENZ EQUATIONS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 23044494816     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.46     Document Type: Article

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