Reliability of decadal predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Corti, S ^a,b   Weisheimer, A ^a,c   Palmer, T N ^a,c   Doblas Reyes, F J ^d,e   Magnusson, L ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^e Institut Catal de Cincies Del Clima Barcelona ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE TRENDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUPLED MODELS; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; EXTERNAL FORCING; HINDCASTS; INDIAN OCEAN; LAND AREAS; LEAD TIME; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

RELIABILITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BASIN; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84870022623     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053354     Document Type: Article

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