Climatology of non-gaussian atmospheric statistics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1063-1083

  Perron, Maxime ^a   Sura, Philip ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climate variability; Climatology; Extreme events; Statistics; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CLIMATE STATISTICS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DAILY DATUM; EXTREME EVENTS; GAUSSIANITY; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; HORIZONTAL WINDS; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRESSURE LEVEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SPATIAL GRIDS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN; VERTICAL VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES; VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HUMIDITY; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VORTICITY; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84874813301     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00504.1     Document Type: Article

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