Tropospheric planetary wave dynamics and mixture modeling: Two preferred regimes and a regime shift

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3521-3541

  Hannachi, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICAN (PNA) PATTERN; PLANETARY WAVE DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 35748958406     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS4045.1     Document Type: Article

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