Intraseasonal forecasting of the Asian summer monsoon in four operational and research models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4186-4203

  Fu, Joshua Xiouhua ^a   Lee, June Yi ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Wang, Wanqiu ^b   Vitart, Frederic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Asia; Coupled models; Forecast verification skill; Intraseasonal variability; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ASIA; COUPLED MODELS; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORECASTING; RAIN; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; RESEARCH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84878345916     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00252.1     Document Type: Article

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