Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: First results from a multi-model experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Koster, R D ^a   Mahanama, S P P ^a,b   Yamada, T J ^a,b,c   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^d   Berg, A A ^e   Boisserie, M ^f   Dirmeyer, P A ^g   Doblas Reyes, F J ^h   Drewitt, G ^e   Gordon, C T ⁱ   Guo, Z ^g   Jeong, J H ^j   Lawrence, D M ^k   Lee, W S ^l   Li, Z ^a,m   Luo, L ^n,o   Malyshev, S ^p   Merryfield, W J ^l   Seneviratne, S I ^q   Stanelle, T ^q   Van Den Hurk, B J J M ^r   Vitart, F ^d   Wood, E F ^o   more..

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^h INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

ⁱ NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^l ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^m SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁿ MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Princeton University   (United States)

^p PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^r ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE; LAND SURFACE; LONG-RANGE FORECASTS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SECOND PHASE; SKILL LEVELS; TEMPERATURE PREDICTION;

SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77952544379     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041677     Document Type: Article

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