Stochastic climate theory and modeling

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-78

  Franzke, Christian L E ^a   O'Kane, Terence J ^b   Berner, Judith ^c   Williams, Paul D ^d   Lucarini, Valerio ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

APPLIED MATHEMATICS; CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; STOCHASTIC COMPONENT; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS; WEATHER AND CLIMATE MODELS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84915794649     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.318     Document Type: Article

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