Low-Frequency Weather and the Emergence of the Climate

Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 231-254

  Lovejoy, S ^a   Schertzer, D ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Universite Paris Est   (France)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLASSICAL TURBULENCES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; PALEOTEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84952782924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001087     Document Type: Chapter

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