Pinkness of the north Atlantic oscillation signal revisited

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 5801-5807

  Fernndez, Isabel ^a   Pacheco, Jos M ^a   Quintana, Mara P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Detrended fluctuation analysis; North Atlantic Oscillation; Power spectrum; Predictability; Resampling

Indexed keywords

POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAP; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PREDICTABILITY; RESAMPLING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

EID: 77958501451     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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