Developments in operational long-range climate prediction at CPC

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 496-515

  O'Lenic, Edward A ^a   Unger, David A ^a   Halpert, Michael S ^a   Pelman, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLENDING; CLIMATOLOGY; CORROSION PREVENTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FOOD PROCESSING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; DYNAMICAL MODELING; FORECAST INFORMATION; GRAPHICAL RENDERINGS; HINDCASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITIES; LONG-RANGE FORECASTING; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; PREDICTION TOOLS; PRODUCTION METHODS; SKILL SCORE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; USER ACCESS;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATABASE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HINDCASTING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REAL TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 48649105735     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007042.1     Document Type: Article

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