Impact of ECCO ocean-state estimates on the initialization of seasonal climate forecasts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1929-1947

  Cazes Boezio, Gabriel ^a,b   Menemenlis, Dimitris ^c   Mechoso, Carlos R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROFLUIDICS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; STANDARDS; STATE ESTIMATION; STATISTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (CGCM); EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; FORECAST SYSTEMS; HINDCASTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT); OCEAN STATES; OCEAN-STATE ESTIMATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST) ANOMALIES; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECASTS; STANDARD ERRORS (SE); STATE OF THE ARTS; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , LOS ANGELES (UCLA);

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

UCLA;

EID: 39749094983     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1574.1     Document Type: Article

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