A stochastic nonlinear oscillator model for glacial millennial-scale climate transitions derived from ice-core data

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 595-603

  Kwasniok, F ^a   Lohmann, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE CORE; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84876541107     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-19-595-2012     Document Type: Article

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