An improved coupled model for ENSO prediction and implications for ocean initialization. Part I: The ocean data assimilation system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1013-1021

  Behringer, David W ^a   Ji, Ming ^a,b   Leetmaa, Ants ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; MODELLING;

EID: 0031712830     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1013:AICMFE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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