Seasonal climate forecasting

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 251-268

  Troccoli, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Decision making; El Nino; Forecast applications; Seasonal climate forecasting

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE FORECASTING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EL NINO; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECISION MAKING; EL NINO; FORECASTING METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 77956807100     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.184     Document Type: Review

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