Assessment of MJO predictability for boreal winter with various statistical and dynamical models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2368-2378

  Kang, In Sik ^a   Kim, Hye Mi ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; DYNAMICAL PREDICTIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIATIONS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTI-LINEAR REGRESSION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; MULTI-REGRESSION MODEL; PREDICTION INTERVAL; SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL PREDICTION; TIME WINDOWS;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; STATISTICS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WINTER;

EID: 77953727785     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3288.1     Document Type: Article

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