Improving global model precipitation forecasts over India using downscaling and the FSU superensemble. Part II: Seasonal climate

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2736-2757

  Chakraborty, Arindam ^a,b   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; DIRECT USE; DOWN-SCALING; DRY AND WET; EQUITABLE THREAT SCORE; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; MONSOON RAINS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAIN GAUGES; RAIN RATES; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL FORECASTS; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; RMS ERRORS; SEASONAL FORECASTS; TIME-SCALES;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODELING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINGAUGE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 70350787345     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2736.1     Document Type: Article

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