Seasonal prediction of north pacific SSTs and PDO in the NCEP CFS hindcasts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5689-5710

  Wen, Caihong ^a,b   Xue, Yan ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Hindcasts; Interannual variability; Pacific decadal oscillation; Seasonal forecasting; Seasonal variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; HINDCASTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867677739     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00556.1     Document Type: Article

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