Non-stationarity of the signal and noise characteristics of seasonal precipitation anomalies

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 739-752

  Ferguson, Ian M ^a   Duffy, Philip B ^b   Phillips, Thomas J ^c   Liang, Xu ^d   Dracup, John A ^e   Schubert, Siegfried ^f   Pegion, Philip ^g  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b Climate Central Inc   (United States)

^c Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^e 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 79551604696     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0850-y     Document Type: Article

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