Climate sensitivity via a nonparametric fluctuation-dissipation theorem

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 937-953

  Cooper, Fenwick C ^a   Haynes, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Forcing; Probability forecasts models; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATE SYSTEM; FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION THEOREM; FORCING; GAUSSIANS; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; LORENZ MODEL; NEW FORMS; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; NONGAUSSIANITY; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THREE-COMPONENT; UNFORCED SYSTEM;

FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DISSIPATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79958719803     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3633.1     Document Type: Article

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