Climate models produce skillful predictions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Shukla, Jagadish ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING;

COUPLED MODELS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; HISTORICAL PERIODS; INDIAN MONSOON RAINFALL; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; LARGE PARTS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MONSOON RAINFALL; PRIMARY SOURCES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL PREDICTION; STATISTICAL FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA;

EID: 84862061983     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051279     Document Type: Article

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