Dynamically-based seasonal forecasts of Atlantic tropical storm activity issued in June by EUROSIP

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Vitart, F ^a   Huddleston, M R ^b   Deque M ^c   Peake, D ^b   Palmer, T N ^a   Stockdale, T N ^a   Davey, M K ^b,d   Ineson, S ^b   Weisheimer, A ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; HURRICANES; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 35948979608     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030740     Document Type: Article

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