Sudden stratospheric warmings as noise-induced transitions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3337-3343

  Birner, Thomas ^a   Williams, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; WAVES;

DETERMINISTIC SYSTEMS; FIRST PASSAGE TIMES; MASS MODELS; MOMENTUM EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM FORCING; PLANCK EQUATIONS; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITIES; STATIONARY PROBABILITY DENSITIES; STOCHASTIC FORCING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TRUNCATED VERSIONS; WAVE ACTIVITIES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

GRAVITY WAVE; PLANETARY WAVE; STOCHASTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 56849086688     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2770.1     Document Type: Article

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