Potentially predictable patterns of extratropical tropospheric circulation in an ensemble of climate simulations with the COLA AGCM

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1816-1829

  Zheng, X ^a,e   Straus, D M ^b,c   Frederiksen, C S ^d   Grainger, S ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^e BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Climate predictability; Dynamical seasonal prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOREAL WINTERS; CENTER FOR OCEAN-LAND-ATMOSPHERE STUDIES; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DYNAMICAL SEASONAL PREDICTION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EXTRATROPICAL; FORCED COMPONENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL MEAN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION; WESTERN PACIFIC; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350680293     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.492     Document Type: Article

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