Seasonal climate prediction for South America with FSU Multi-model Synthetic Superensemble algorithm

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 37-56

  Chaves, Rosane R ^a   Mitra, A K ^b   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21844449176     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0120-4     Document Type: Article

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