Predictability of stratospheric sudden warmings as inferred from ensemble forecast data: Intercomparison of 2001/02 and 2003/04 winters

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 919-925

  Hirooka, Toshihiko ^a   Ichimaru, Tomoko ^a   Mukougawa, Hitoshi ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EID: 39849094918     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.919     Document Type: Article

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