Improving the prediction of winter precipitation and temperature over the continental United States: Role of the ENSO state in developing multimodel combinations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2447-2468

  Devineni, Naresh ^a   Sankarasubramanian, A ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Precipitation; Seasonal forecasting; Teleconnections; Temperature; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CANDIDATE MODELS; HIGHER WEIGHT; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL COMBINATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NEW APPROACHES; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SKILL LEVELS; TELECONNECTIONS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LA NINA; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TELECONNECTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955584233     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3112.1     Document Type: Article

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