Assessing the relative roles of initial and boundary conditions in interannual to decadal climate predictability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3104-3109

  Collins, Matthew ^a   Allen, Myles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036864546     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3104:ATRROI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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