A statistical mechanical approach for the computation of the climatic response to general forcings

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-28

  Lucarini, V ^a   Sarno, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651385707     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-18-7-2011     Document Type: Article

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