The remarkable predictability of inter-annual variability of Atlantic hurricanes during the past decade

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Jan Huey ^a,b   Lin, Shian Jiann ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STORMS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANE; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NEGATIVE BIAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE ACTIVITY; WEATHER PREDICTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79958082846     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047629     Document Type: Article

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