Improving seasonal prediction practices through attribution of climate variability

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-72

  Barnston, Anthony G ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b   Goddard, Lisa ^a   Hoerling, Martin P ^c  

^a Lamont Campus   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 14244258514     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-1-59     Document Type: Article

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