High skill in low-frequency climate response through fluctuation dissipation theorems despite structural instability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 581-586

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Abramov, Rafail ^b   Gershgorin, Boris ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Irreducible imprecision

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ICE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 76249097159     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912997107     Document Type: Article

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