The retrospective prediction of ENSO from 1881 to 2000 by a hybrid coupled model: (II) Interdecadal and decadal variations in predictability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 415-428

  Deng, Ziwang ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 58149098676     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0398-2     Document Type: Article

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