Nonstationarity in multifactor models of discrete jump processes, memory, and application to cloud modeling

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1493-1506

  Horenko, Illia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clouds; Coupled models; Statistical techniques; Stochastic models

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER DATA; CLOUD MODELING; CLOUD TYPES; CONTINUOUS STATE SPACE; COUPLED MODELS; EXOGENOUS FACTORS; JUMP PROBABILITY; JUMP PROCESS; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MARKOV MODEL; MARKOVIAN; MIDLATITUDES; MULTIFACTOR MODELS; NON-STATIONARITIES; NONSTATIONARY; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; STANDARD METHOD; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL METHODS; STANDARDS; TIME SERIES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GEOSTATISTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960319155     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3692.1     Document Type: Article

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