Useful decadal climate prediction at regional scales? A look at the ENSEMBLES stream 2 decadal hindcasts

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  MacLeod, D A ^a   Caminade, C ^a   Morse, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate adaptation; climate modelling; decadal prediction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; LASERS;

CLIMATE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; PRECIPITATION PREDICTIONS; PRECIPITATION TRENDS; PREDICTIVE POWER; TEMPERATURE TRENDS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TIMESCALE;

EID: 84867819404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044012     Document Type: Article

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