Ensemble hindcasts of ENSO events over the past 120 years using a large number of ensembles

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 359-372

  Zheng, Fei ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Wang, Hui ^b   Zhang, Rong Hua ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction system; ENSO; Hindcast; Interdecadal predictability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849120388     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-0359-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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