The Madden-Julian oscillation and the relative value of deterministic forecasts of extreme precipitation in the contiguous United States

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2421-2428

  Jones, Charles ^a   Carvalho, Leila M V ^a   Gottschalck, Jon ^b   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; Short range forecasting

Indexed keywords

DECISION MODELS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; ENHANCED CONVECTION; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; INDIAN OCEAN; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; RELATIVE VALUE; SHORT-RANGE FORECASTING; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 79958101336     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI-D-10-05002.1     Document Type: Article

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