Improved seasonal precipitation forecasts for the Asian monsoon using 16 atmosphere-ocean coupled models. Part I: Climatology

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-64

  Kumar, Vinay ^a   Krishnamurti, T N ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Ensembles; Forecasts; Monsoons; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODELS; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; ENSEMBLES; FIRST LOOK; FORECAST MODEL; FORECASTS; GRID LOCATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; MONSOONS; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS; RAIN GAUGES; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RAINFALL DATA; RAINFALL ESTIMATES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SENSITIVITY-OF-RESULTS; TRAINING PHASE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; GAGES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; RAIN GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856958809     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4125.1     Document Type: Article

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