Dynamics and predictability of Stommel’s box model. A phase-space perspective with implications for decadal climate variability
By: Gerrit Lohmann and Joachim Schneider
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v51i2.12314 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 326 - 336
Submitted on: Dec 11, 1997
Accepted on: Oct 2, 1998
Published on: Jan 1, 1999
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 1999 Gerrit Lohmann, Joachim Schneider, published by Stockholm University Press
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