Average predictability time. Part I: Theory

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1172-1187

  DelSole, Timothy ^a,b   Tippett, Michael K ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS SETS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THEORY; INTEGRAL TIME SCALE; LEAD TIME; LINEAR TRANSFORMATION; LONG LEADS; MAHALANOBIS METRIC; MEASURING ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REASONABLE VALUE; SPECTRAL PEAK; STABILITY THEORIES; STOCHASTIC FORCING; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL VARIANCE; UPPER BOUND;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; POWER SPECTRUM; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69849089041     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2868.1     Document Type: Article

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