Bred vectors of the Zebiak-Cane model and their potential application to ENSO predictions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-56

  Cai, Ming ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Toth, Zoltan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; FORECASTING; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

BRED VECTORS (BV);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; VECTOR;

EID: 0141595947     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0040:BVOTZC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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