High predictive skill of global surface temperature a year ahead

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 761-767

  Folland, Chris K ^a,b   Colman, Andrew W ^a   Smith, Doug M ^a   Boucher, Olivier ^a,c   Parker, David E ^a   Vernier, Jean Paul ^d,e  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; REAL-TIME FORECASTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VERIFICATION DATA;

FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REAL TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84878213396     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50169     Document Type: Article

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