ENSO ensemble prediction: Initial error perturbations vs. model error perturbations

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2516-2523

  Zheng, Fei ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Zhu, Jiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction; ENSO; Initial error perturbation; Model error perturbation; Predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349334318     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0179-2     Document Type: Article

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