Systematic metastable atmospheric regime identification in an AGCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1997-2012

  Franzke, Christian ^a   Horenko, Illia ^b   Majda, Andrew J ^c   Klein, Rupert ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANALYSIS RESULTS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BAROTROPIC MODELS; BLOCKINGS; CLUSTERING METHODS; DATA SETS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EDDY FLUXES; EIGENSPECTRUM; FINITE-ELEMENT APPROACH; FLOW REGIMES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; LOW-PASS; MARKOV MODEL; MARKOV TRANSITION MATRICES; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OVERLAPPING CLUSTERS; PHASE SPACES; REDUCED MODEL; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SWITCHING SEQUENCE; SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION; TRANSITION PROBABILITY MATRIX; TWO-DIMENSION;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SWITCHING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROTROPIC MOTION; EIGENVALUE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 69949114819     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2939.1     Document Type: Article

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