Extreme events and the general circulation: Observations and stochastic model dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2785-2804

  Sura, Philip ^a   Perron, Maxime ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Extreme events; Numerical analysis modeling; Potential vorticity; Statistics; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENSTROPHY; EXTREME EVENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; MIDLATITUDES; NON-GAUSSIAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RANDOM VELOCITY FIELDS; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK; STOCHASTIC REPRESENTATIONS; STORM TRACK;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STORMS; VORTICITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EXTREME EVENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STOCHASTICITY; STORM TRACK; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77958570294     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3369.1     Document Type: Article

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