Ensemble hindcasts of SST anomalies in the tropical Pacific using an intermediate coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Zheng, Fei ^a,b   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Rong Hua ^c   Zhou, Guang Qing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

INTERMEDIATE COUPLED MODEL (ICM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL PACIFIC;

SEAWATER;

ANOMALY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34047219706     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026994     Document Type: Article

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