Community structure and dynamics in climate networks

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 933-940

  Tsonis, Anastasios A ^a   Wang, Geli ^b   Swanson, Kyle L ^a   Rodrigues, Francisco A ^c   Costa, Luciano da Fontura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Networks; Teleconnection patterns

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 80052257360     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0874-3     Document Type: Article

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