Simulating weather regimes: impact of stochastic and perturbed parameter schemes in a simple atmospheric model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2195-2214

  Christensen, H M ^a   Moroz, I M ^a   Palmer, T N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Lorenz 96 system; Model uncertainty; Perturbed parameter schemes; Stochastic physics; Weather regimes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939898357     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2239-9     Document Type: Article

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