Southern Hemisphere annular mode variability and the role of optimal nonmodal growth

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1947-1961

  Rashid, M Harun Ar ^a,b   Simmonds, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; NONMODAL GROWTH; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL;

METEOROLOGY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 23744495790     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3444.1     Document Type: Article

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