Comparing the spatial structure of variability in two datasets against each other on the basis of EOF-modes

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1631-1648

  Bayr, Tobias ^a   Dommenget, Dietmar ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal functions; Global warming; Modes of variability; Spatial structure of variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894380992     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1708-x     Document Type: Article

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