Predicting stochastic systems by noise sampling, and application to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 11766-11771

  Chekroun, Mickaël David ^a,b   Kondrashov, Dmitri ^b   Ghil, Michael ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EL NINO; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79961055478     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015753108     Document Type: Article

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