How accurately do coupled climate models predict the leading modes of Asian-Australian monsoon interannual variability?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 605-619

  Wang, Bin ^a   Lee, June Yi ^a   Kang, I S ^b   Shukla, J ^c   Kug, J S ^b   Kumar, A ^d   Schemm, J ^d   Luo, J J ^e   Yamagata, T ^e   Park, C K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f APEC Climate Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asian Australian monsoon; Biennial tendency; Coupled atmosphere ocean land climate model; Dominant mode of rainfall variability; ENSO predictability; MME one month lead prediction; NCEPCFS

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WALKER CIRCULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA;

EID: 41449088188     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0310-5     Document Type: Article

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