On north american decadal climate for 2011-20

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 4519-4528

  Hoerling, Martin ^a   Hurrell, James ^b   Kumar, Arun ^c   Terray, Laurent ^d   Eischeid, Jon ^a   Pegion, Philip ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Quan, Xiaowei ^a   Xu, Taiyi ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Climate prediction; Decadal variability; Greenhouse gases; North America; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY FORCING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EXTERNAL SIGNALS; FORCED RESPONSE; INITIAL STATE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; MODEL DEPENDENCIES; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PREDICTION METHODS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WARMING;

ASSOCIATED GAS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80052629272     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4137.1     Document Type: Article

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