Decadal predictability of the Atlantic Ocean in a coupled GCM: Forecast skill and optimal perturbations using linear inverse modeling

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3960-3978

  Hawkins, Ed ^a   Sutton, Rowan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; FAR NORTH; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INVERSE MODELING; LINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LINEAR MODEL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NONNORMAL; NORDIC SEAS; OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; UNIFIED MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION;

AMPLIFICATION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; PERTURBATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WHITE NOISE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 68749096042     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2720.1     Document Type: Article

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