Systematic error correction of dynamical seasonal prediction of sea surface temperature using a stepwise pattern project method

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3501-3512

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Lee, June Yi ^b,c   Kang, In Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; VIDEO STREAMING;

AUTOMATIC SELECTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; GLOBAL OCEANS; GRID POINTS; INDIAN OCEANS; LEAD TIMES; OPTIMAL PREDICTORS; PATTERN PROJECTION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; SST ANOMALIES; STATISTICAL ERROR CORRECTION; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STATISTICAL POSTPROCESSING; TEMPORAL CORRELATION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ERROR CORRECTION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 53649098906     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2272.1     Document Type: Article

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