Measuring the potential utility of seasonal climate predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Tippett, Michael K ^a   Kleeman, Richard ^b   Tang, Youmin ^b  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1869 Hydrology: Stochastic processes; 3339 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854); 4522 Oceanography: Physical: El Nino

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE ANOMALIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 14044269320     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021575     Document Type: Article

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