Persistent regimes and extreme events of the north atlantic atmospheric circulation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Franzke, Christian L E ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulation Regimes; Clustering; Extremes; Long Range Dependence

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HAZARDS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLUSTERING; EXTREME WIND SPEED; EXTREMES; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; LONG RANGE DEPENDENCE; LONG RANGE DEPENDENT; WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 84876515152     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0471     Document Type: Article

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