High sensitivity to the initial condition for the prediction of stratospheric sudden warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Mukougawa, Hitoshi ^a   Sakai, Hirokazu ^b   Hirooka, Toshihiko ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

POLAR STRATOSPHERIC REGIONS; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING; ZONAL-WAVENUMBER;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERE; PREDICTION; WARMING;

EID: 27544491897     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022909     Document Type: Article

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