Analog downscaling of seasonal rainfall forecasts in the Murray darling basin

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1099-1117

  Charles, Andrew ^a   Timbal, Bertrand ^a   Fernandez, Elodie ^b   Hendon, Harry ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b CERFACS   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Climate prediction; Coupled models; Hindcasts; Model output statistics; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODELS; HINDCASTS; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; SEASONAL FORECASTING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; LASERS; SEA LEVEL;

RAIN;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 84875668716     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00098.1     Document Type: Article

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