Metastable decomposition of high-dimensional meteorological data with gaps

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3479-3496

  Horenko, Illia ^a   Dolaptchiev, Stamen I ^b   Eliseev, Alexey V ^c   Mokhov, Igor I ^c   Klein, Rupert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DIMENSION REDUCTIONS; EXIT TIMES; EXTENDED EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; MARKOVIAN; MARKOVIAN DYNAMICS; MARKOVIAN REPRESENTATIONS; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIMES; MEAN VALUES; META STABILITIES; METASTABLE DECOMPOSITIONS; METASTABLE STATES; METEOROLOGICAL DATUMS; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; OBSERVATION DATUMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; REDUCED REPRESENTATIONS; STATISTICAL WEIGHTS; TIME SERIES; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; GEOPOTENTIAL; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 58049093933     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2754.1     Document Type: Article

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