Can the frequency of blocking be described by a red noise process?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2143-2149

  Masato, Giacomo ^a   Hoskins, Brian J ^a   Woollings, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; BACKGROUND FLOW; BLOCKING INDEX; BLOCKING PHENOMENON; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; FIRST-ORDER MARKOV MODEL; MIDLATITUDES; NOISE MODELS; NOISE PROCESS; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; MARKOV CHAIN; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 69949136811     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2907.1     Document Type: Article

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