Extraseasonal short-term predictions of summer climate with IAP9L-AGCM

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-24

  Lang, Xian Mei ^a   Wang, Hui Jun ^a   Jiang, Da Bang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ensemble hindcasting; Extraseasonal short term climate predictions; IAP9L AGCM; Predictability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; SUMMER;

EID: 4243129063     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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