Predictive skill of statistical and dynamical climate models in SST forecasts during the 1997-98 El Niño episode and the 1998 La Niña onset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-243

  Barnston, Anthony G ^a   Glantz, Michael H ^b   He, Yuxiang ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b World Weather Building ^*

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EID: 0010387656     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<0217:PSOSAD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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