Stochastic climate dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 240, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 1685-1700

  Chekroun, Mickal D ^a,b   Simonnet, Eric ^c   Ghil, Michael ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Dissipative dynamical systems; Intermittency; Pullback and random attractor; Sample invariant measure; SRB measure

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; INTERMITTENCY; INVARIANT MEASURE; RANDOM ATTRACTORS; SRB MEASURE;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 78651392362     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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