Decadal climate prediction (project GCEP)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1890, 2009, Pages 925-937

  Haines, Keith ^a   Hermanson, Leon ^a   Liu, Chunlei ^a   Putt, Debbie ^a   Sutton, Rowan ^a   Iwi, Alan ^b   Smith, Doug ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate forecasting; Climate predictability; Coupled models; Decadal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES; CLIMATE FORECASTING; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; CLIMATE PREDICTIONS; COUPLED MODELS; CRYOSPHERE; DECADAL FORECASTING; E SCIENCE; ENSEMBLE MODELS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LAND AREAS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENTS; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; INTERNET; METEOROLOGY; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; INTERNET; METEOROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; WEATHER;

EID: 60349116696     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0178     Document Type: Article

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