A new scheme for improving the seasonal prediction of summer precipitation anomalies

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 548-554

  Wang, Huijun ^a   Fan, Ke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY PATTERNS; DEMETER; EAST ASIA; HINDCASTS; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; MODEL PREDICTION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SKILL LEVELS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CLIMATOLOGY;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 69949128199     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222171.1     Document Type: Article

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