Interannual temperature predictions using the CMIP3 multi-model ensemble mean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Laepple, Thomas ^a   Jewson, Stephen ^b   Coughlin, Katie ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; FORECAST METHODS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HINDCAST; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERANNUAL FORECASTS; MEAN TEMPERATURES; MULTI MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMPLE METHODS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE PREDICTIONS;

FORECASTING;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; HURRICANE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58049091536     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033576     Document Type: Article

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