Contribution of the location and spatial pattern of initial error to uncertainties in El Nio predictions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Yu, Yanshan ^a   Mu, Mu ^a   Duan, Wansuo ^b   Gong, Tingting ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERRORS; STREAM FLOW;

ANNUAL MEAN; COMBINED EFFECT; CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; DIPOLE PATTERNS; EASTERN PACIFIC; OPTIMAL ERROR; PREDICTION ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; ZEBIAK-CANE MODEL;

FORECASTING;

EL NINO; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84862845006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007758     Document Type: Article

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