Influence of the Madden-Julian oscillation on forecasts of extreme precipitation in the contiguous United States

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 332-350

  Jones, Charles ^a   Gottschalck, Jon ^b   Carvalho, Leila M V ^a   Higgins, Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Forecasting; Madden Julian oscillation; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE FORECASTS; ENHANCED CONVECTION; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; INDIAN OCEAN; LEAD TIME; LOSS OF LIFE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NON-PROBABILISTIC; PRECIPITATION; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; QUIESCENT PERIOD; SKILL SCORE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WEATHER PHENOMENA;

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTREME EVENT; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; CALIFORNIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952509092     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3512.1     Document Type: Article

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