Empirical singular vector method for ensemble El Nio-Southern Oscillation prediction with a coupled general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^c   Ham, Yoo Geun ^a   Lee, Eun Jeong ^b   Kang, In Sik ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; VECTORS;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; ERROR MODE; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LINEAR OPERATORS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SEASONAL CLIMATE PREDICTION; SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; SINGULAR VECTORS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PROBABILITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 80052313881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006851     Document Type: Article

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