Comparative evaluation of two ensembles for long-range forecasting of monsoon rainfall

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2893-2907

  Goswami, P ^a   Gouda, K C ^a  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL STATE; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; LONG RANGE; LONG-RANGE FORECASTING; MONSOON RAINFALL; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; VARIABLE RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; LONG RANGE FORECAST; MONSOON; OPTIMIZATION; RAINFALL; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70350757971     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2767.1     Document Type: Article

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