Weather and seasonal climate forecasts using the superensemble approach

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Volumn 9780521848824, Issue , 2006, Pages 532-560

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Vijaya Kumar, T S V ^a   Yun, Won Tae ^a   Chakraborty, Arun ^a   Stefanova, Lydia ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; REDUCTION OF SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ALGORITHM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350788459     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617652.021     Document Type: Chapter

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