Non-linear dependence and teleconnections in climate data: Sources, relevance, nonstationarity

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 1873-1886

  Hlinka, Jaroslav ^a   Hartman, David ^a   Vejmelka, Martin ^a   Novotná, Dagmar ^b   Paluš, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate networks; Mutual information; Nonlinearity; Nonstationarity; Seasonality in variance; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; NONLINEARITY; SEASONALITY; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 84897573038     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1780-2     Document Type: Article

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