A new type of climate network based on probabilistic graphical models: Results of boreal winter versus summer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Ebert Uphoff, Imme ^a   Deng, Yi ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

BOREAL WINTERS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GRID POINTS; INFORMATION CARRIERS; INFORMATION FLOWS; LOCAL MAXIMUM; LOCAL MEMORIES; NETWORK NODE; NETWORK-BASED; NORTH PACIFIC; POLEWARD SHIFT; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; STORM TRACK; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TIME-SCALES;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAPHICAL METHOD; PROBABILITY; STORM TRACK; SUMMER; TIMESCALE; WINTER;

PACIFIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867208135     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053269     Document Type: Article

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