Exploring the initial errors that cause a significant "spring predictability barrier" for El Niño events

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Duan, Wansuo ^a   Liu, Xinchao ^b   Zhu, Keyun ^b   Mu, Mu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; TIMING DEVICES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIORS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSO FORECAST; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ERROR GROWTH; NON-LINEARITY; PREDICTION ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SENSITIVE AREA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; ZEBIAK-CANE MODEL;

ERRORS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 68149171521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004925     Document Type: Article

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