Impacts of initial conditions on monsoon intraseasonal forecasting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Fu, Xiouhua ^a,c   Wang, Bin ^a   Bao, Qing ^b   Liu, Ping ^a,c   Lee, June Yi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; COUPLED MODELS; GLOBAL TROPICS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; NCEP REANALYSIS; RAINFALL PREDICTABILITY; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII; ZONAL WIND;

RAIN; TROPICS;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; MONSOON; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 67449167864     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037166     Document Type: Article

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