Oscillatory Spatiotemporal Signal Detection in Climate Studies: A Multiple-Taper Spectral Domain Approach

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue C, 1999, Pages 1-131

  Mann, Michael E ^a   Park, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; OSCILLATING FLOW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 38149065038     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(08)60026-6     Document Type: Article

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