Evaluation of the DEMETER performance for seasonal hindcasts of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1717-1729

  Ma, Shujie ^a   Rodó, Xavier ^a,b   Doblas Reyes, Francisco J ^a,b  

^a Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3)   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEMETER; Indian summer monsoon rainfall; Interannual variability; Multimodel ensemble forecasting; Seasonal forecast quality; Systematic biases

Indexed keywords

DEMETER; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; RAIN;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DEMETER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

EID: 84864389046     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2389     Document Type: Article

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