A linear tendency correction technique for improving seasonal prediction of SST

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Barreiro, Marcelo ^a,b   Chang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3339 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Ocean atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504); 4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4263 Oceanography: General: Ocean prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AGCM); LINEAR TENDENCY CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; FORECASTING METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16644401192     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021148     Document Type: Article

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