Prospects for improving subseasonal predictions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3648-3666

  Pegion, Kathy ^a   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindcasts; Intraseasonal variability; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; HINDCASTS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LEAD TIME; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; LOW-FREQUENCY MODES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; PREDICTABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDICTABILITY LIMIT; THERMAL INERTIA; TIME LAG; TIME-AVERAGED;

CLIMATOLOGY; NASA; TROPICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84855801251     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00004.1     Document Type: Article

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