Ensemble ENSO hindcasts initialized from multiple ocean analyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Marx, Lawrence ^a   Kinter, James L ^a,b   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^c   Zhang, Rong Hua ^d   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^e  

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

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE DRIFT; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HINDCASTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL STATE; LEAD TIME; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; PRESENT STAGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CLIMATES; TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84862113942     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051503     Document Type: Article

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