Deficiencies and possibilities for long-lead coupled climate prediction of the Western North Pacific-East Asian summer monsoon

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 1173-1188

  Lee, Sun Seon ^a   Lee, June Yi ^b   Ha, Kyung Ja ^a   Wang, Bin ^b   Schemm, Jae Kyung E ^c  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate Forecast System; East Asian summer monsoon index; Long lead coupled climate prediction; Multi model ensemble; Predictive Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia; Statistical postprocessing; Western North Pacific summer monsoon index; Western North Pacific East Asian monsoon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79952251144     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0832-0     Document Type: Article

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