Empirical master equations. Part I: Numerical properties

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2981-2995

  Dall'Amico, Mauro ^a,b   Egger, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; EMPIRICAL MASTER EQUATION (EME); NUMERICAL PROPERTIES; STRATOSPHERIC DYNAMICS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 34948904339     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3992.1     Document Type: Article

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