Linking nonlinearity and non-Gaussianity of planetary wave behavior by the Fokker-Planck equation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7 I, 2005, Pages 2098-2117

  Berner, Judith ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TROPOSPHERE;

BRANSTATOR-KUSHNIR OSCILLATION; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; NONLINEAR STOCHASTIC MODEL; TROPOSPHERIC PLANETARY WAVE BEHAVIOR;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; PLANETARY WAVE;

EID: 23744459804     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3468.1     Document Type: Article

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