Seasonal forecasts of Canadian winter precipitation by postprocessing GCM integrations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 769-783

  Lin, Hai ^a   Brunet, Gilbert ^a   Derome, Jacques ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ENSEMBLE FORECAST; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44449119394     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2232.1     Document Type: Article

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