Predictability of cold spring seasons in Europe

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4185-4201

  Shongwe, Mxolisi E ^a,b   Ferro, Christopher A T ^c   Coelho, Caio A S ^d   van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b Swaziland National Meteorological Service   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SNOW;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; PARAMETERIZATION; SNOW COVER; SPRING (SEASON);

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38049172929     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2094.1     Document Type: Article

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