Analysis and modelling of glacial climate transitions using simple dynamical systems

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

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Kwasniok, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dansgaard Oeschger Events; Excitable System; Limit Cycle; Mixture Of Linear Models; Relaxation Oscillator; Stochastic Dynamical Systems

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIGITAL STORAGE; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HOPF BIFURCATION; MIXTURES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ANALYSIS AND MODELLING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS; EXCITABLE SYSTEMS; LARGE AMPLITUDE OSCILLATION; LIMIT CYCLE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC RELAXATION;

RELAXATION OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84876571660     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0472     Document Type: Article

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