Six month-lead downscaling prediction of winter to spring drought in South Korea based on a multimodel ensemble

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 579-583

  Sohn, Soo Jin ^a   Ahn, Joong Bae ^b   Tam, Chi Yung ^c  

^a Climate Prediction Team Climate Research Department APEC Climate Center ^*  (South Korea)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

extreme droughts; MME; seasonal prediction; SPEI; statistical downscaling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; MME; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION PREDICTIONS; RAINFALL VARIATION; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SPEI; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DROUGHT STRESS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84878187238     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50133     Document Type: Article

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