Collaboration of the weather and climate communities to advance subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1397-1406

  Brunet, Gilbert ^a   Shapiro, Melvyn ^b,c   Hoskins, Brian ^d,e   Moncrieff, Mitch ^b   Dole, Randall ^f   Kiladis, George N ^f   Kirtman, Ben ^g,h   Lorenc, Andrew ⁱ   Mills, Brian ^a   Morss, Rebecca ^b   Polavarapu, Saroja ^a   Rogers, David ^j   Schaake, John ^k   Shukla, Jagadish ^l  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j Health and Climate Foundation   (United States)

^k NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^l GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; MULTISCALES; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TWO-WAY INTERACTION; WEATHER RESEARCH; WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH (PLANET); ECONOMICS; FORECASTING; RESEARCH; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 78649314548     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS3013.1     Document Type: Article

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