Sensitivity of dynamical intraseasonal prediction skills to different initial conditions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2572-2592

  Fu, Xiouhua ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Lee, June Yi ^a   Wang, Wanqiu ^b   Gao, Li ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Coupled models; Intraseasonal variability; Model comparison; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE FORECASTS; COUPLED MODELS; DATA SETS; DIVERGENCE FIELD; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; GLOBAL TROPICS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MARITIME CONTINENT; MODEL COMPARISON; NCEP REANALYSIS; OVERALL QUALITY; RAINFALL PREDICTION; REANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; RECOVERY; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 80051529398     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3584.1     Document Type: Review

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