Identifying causal gateways and mediators in complex spatio-temporal systems

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Runge, Jakob ^a,b   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a   Donges, Jonathan F ^a,c   Hlinka, Jaroslav ^d   Jajcay, Nikola ^d,e   Vejmelka, Martin ^d   Hartman, David ^d,e   Marwan, Norbert ^a   Paluš, Milan ^d   Kurths, Jürgen ^a,b,f,g,h  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^g LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^h INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DYNAMICS; REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84943609055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9502     Document Type: Article

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