Improvement of the multimodel superensemble technique for seasonal forecasts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3834-3840

  Yun, W T ^a,b   Stefanova, L ^a   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SUPERENSEMBLE TECHNIQUE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0346687452     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3834:IOTMST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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