Predictability of SST-modulated westerly wind bursts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3894-3909

  Gebbie, Geoffrey ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSO MODELS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MEAN-WINDS; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; STATISTICAL APPROACH; WESTERLY WIND BURSTS; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; WARM POOL; WEATHER FORECASTING; WESTERLY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 68749118483     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2516.1     Document Type: Article

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