Parametric smoothness and self-scaling of the statistical properties of a minimal climate model: What beyond the mean field theories?

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-123

  Lucarini, Valerio ^a,b   Speranza, Antonio ^a   Vitolo, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Attractor dimension; Bonding box; Chaotic dynamics; Climate model; Metric entropy; Scaling law; Self similarity; Strange attractor

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; SCALING LAWS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATTRACTOR DIMENSIONS; BONDING BOXES; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; METRIC ENTROPY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 34548493255     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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