Two tales of initializing decadal climate prediction experiments with the ECHAM5/MPI-OM model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8502-8523

  Matei, Daniela ^a   Pohlmann, Holger ^a   Jungclaus, Johann ^a   Müller, Wolfgang ^a   Haak, Helmuth ^a   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Climate variability; Model initialization

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; HINDCASTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN EXPERIMENT; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN STATE; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBPOLAR GYRES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HINDCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84870049578     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00633.1     Document Type: Article

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