On the importance of initializing the stochastic part of the atmosphere for forecasting the 1997/1998 El Niño

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 313-324

  Shi, Li ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a   Alves, Oscar ^a   Wheeler, Matthew C ^a   Anderson, David ^a   Wang, Guomin ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric intra seasonal variations; El Ni o; Initializing; Prediction

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCING; DOWNWELLING; EL NINO; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79959805141     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0933-9     Document Type: Article

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