Global sea surface temperature prediction using a multimodel ensemble

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3239-3247

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Lee, June Yi ^b   Kang, In Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLE; SIMPLE COMPOSITE ENSEMBLE METHOD; TIER-TWO SEASONAL PREDICTION SYSTEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BOUNDARY CONDITION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34848816810     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3458.1     Document Type: Article

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