The impact of model fidelity on seasonal predictive skill

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Kharin, V V ^a   Scinocca, J F ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

BIAS CORRECTION; CANADIAN CENTRE FOR CLIMATE MODELLING AND ANALYSIS; CYCLOSTATIONARY; DEGRADING MODEL; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IMPROVE-A; RUNTIMES; SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); THIRD GENERATION; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HUMIDITY; MODEL TEST; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIMESCALE; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 84867026893     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052815     Document Type: Article

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