The retrospective prediction of El Niño-southern oscillation from 1881 to 2000 by a hybrid coupled model: (I) Sea surface temperature assimilation with ensemble Kalman filter

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 397-413

  Deng, Ziwang ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a   Zhou, Xiaobing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MATRIX; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 58149101246     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0399-1     Document Type: Article

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