Estimate of the predictability of boreal summer and winter intraseasonal oscillations from observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2421-2438

  Ding, Ruiqiang ^a   Li, Jianping ^a   Seo, Kyong Hwan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Intraseasonal variability; Madden Julian oscillation; Summer warm season; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; BOREAL SUMMER INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; BOREAL WINTERS; DOMINANT MODE; ERROR GROWTH; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PREDICTABILITY LIMIT; RAPID GROWTH; SOUTH AMERICA; SUMMER/WARM SEASON; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; UPSTREAM REGION; VELOCITY POTENTIALS; WINTER/COOL SEASON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EID: 80052420847     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3571.1     Document Type: Article

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