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| Titel |
Perspectives of non-gaussianity in large scale weather and climate Variability |
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Abdel Hannachi, Philip Sura |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250097269
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-12833.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Understanding non-Gaussian statistics of weather and climate variability has
important consequences in the atmospheric and ocean sciences not least because
weather and climate risk assessment depends on knowing and understanding the exact
shape of the system's probability density function. While there is no doubt that
many atmospheric variables exhibit non-Gaussian statistics on many time
(and spatial) scales a
full and complete understanding of this phenomenon remains a challenge. Various
mechanisms behind the observed non-Gaussian statistics have been proposed but
remain, however,
multifaceted and scattered in the literature. Given the importance of this subject
for climate research, and in an attempt to contribute to this topic a thorough
review and discussion of the different mechanisms that lead to non-Gaussian
weather and climate variability are presented in this paper and an outlook is
given. |
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