Decadal climate prediction with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts coupled forecast system: Impact of ocean observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Doblas Reyes, F J ^a,b,c   Balmaseda, M A ^c   Weisheimer, A ^c,d   Palmer, T N ^c,d  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b Institut Català de Ciències Del Clima ^*  (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; EXTRATROPICS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; INTERANNUAL SIGNALS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MODEL DRIFT; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; OCEAN PROCESS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; REALISTIC INITIAL CONDITIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SYSTEM DRIFT; UPPER OCEAN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEASONALITY; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

EUROPE;

EID: 80054809984     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015394     Document Type: Article

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