A hidden Markov model perspective on regimes and metastability in atmospheric flows

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1740-1757

  Franzke, Christian ^a,b   Crommelin, Daan ^a,c   Fischer, Alexander ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; BAROTROPIC FLOW; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF); GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PLANETARY-SCALE FLOW;

METEOROLOGY;

AIRFLOW; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; PLANETARY WAVE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 44449178720     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1751.1     Document Type: Article

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