Skill of multimodel ENSO probability forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3933-3946

  Tippett, Michael K ^a   Barnston, Anthony G ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARNINGS; INFORMATION THEORY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY;

BOREAL SUMMERS; COMBINATION METHODS; COMBINATION STRATEGIES; DEMETER; EUROPEANS; HINDCAST; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERANNUAL PREDICTIONS; JOINT BEHAVIORS; MODEL PREDICTIONS; MULTI MODELS; MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTIONS; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; RATE OF RETURNS; RELATIONS BETWEEN MODELS; SAMPLING ERRORS; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEANS;

FORECASTING;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 53649104591     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2431.1     Document Type: Article

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