Impact of altimetry data on ENSO ensemble initializations and predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

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

^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

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA LEVEL; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EL NIÑO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBSURFACE THERMAL EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EID: 34548634390     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030451     Document Type: Article

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