The Path Integral Formulation of Climate Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Navarra, Antonio ^a   Tribbia, Joe ^b   Conti, Giovanni ^a  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; NOISE; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WEATHER;

EID: 84879544610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067022     Document Type: Article

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