What kind of initial errors cause the severest prediction uncertainty of El Niño in Zebiak-Cane model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 577-584

  Xu, Hui ^a   Duan, Wansuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO; Optimal perturbation; Predictability; Prediction error

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349117477     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0577-4     Document Type: Article

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