The impact of land surface and atmospheric initialization on seasonal forecasts with CCSM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1007-1021

  Paolino, Daniel A ^a   Kinter, James L ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^b   Min, Dughong ^b   Straus, David M ^a  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Land Surface; Seasonal forecasting; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; IMPROVED FORECAST; INITIAL STATE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND SURFACE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; OCEAN STATE; PROXY DATA; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL FORECAST MODELS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SOIL SURFACES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOISTURE TRANSFER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856952506     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3934.1     Document Type: Article

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