Forecast skill of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation in the NCEP GFS dynamical extended range forecasts

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 265-284

  Seo, Kyong Hwan ^a   Schemm, J K E ^a   Jones, C ^b   Moorthi, S ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 26444584574     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0035-2     Document Type: Article

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