Bistable systems with stochastic noise: Virtues and limits of effective one-dimensional Langevin equations

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-22

  Lucarini, V ^a,b   Faranda, D ^a   Willeit, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 84855845904     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-19-9-2012     Document Type: Article

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