Is the interannual variability of the summer asian-pacific oscillation predictable?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3865-3876

  Huang, Yanyan ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a,c   Zhao, Ping ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTER-ANNUAL PREDICTIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; TROPICAL EASTERLIES;

CLIMATOLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TROPOSPHERE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DEMETER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; JET FLOW; PREDICTION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 84878974130     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00450.1     Document Type: Article

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