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

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-88

  Krishnamurti, T N ^a   Kumar, Vinay ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Coupled models; Monsoons; Precipitation; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANOMALIES; ASIAN MONSOON; COUPLED MODELS; CROSS VALIDATION; CURRENT MODELING; DATA LENGTH; DOWN-SCALING; EQUITABLE THREAT SCORE; MODEL DATA; MONSOON RAINFALL; MONSOONS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL SUPERENSEMBLE; POST PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PROBABILISTIC SKILL; RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS; RAINFALL ANOMALY; RMS ERRORS; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SKILL METRIC; SKILL SCORE; SPIN-UP; TRAINING PHASE;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CORRELATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84856976125     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4126.1     Document Type: Article

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