Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 349-362

  van den Hurk, Bart ^a   Doblas Reyes, Francisco ^b,c   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^c   Koster, Randal D ^d   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^e   Camargo Jr , Helio ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3)   (Spain)

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

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Europe; Potential predictability; Seasonal forecasting; Soil moisture initialization

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84855267070     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0956-2     Document Type: Article

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