Decadal prediction of observed and simulated sea surface temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2773-2778

  Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Jia, Liwei ^b   Tippett, Michael K ^c,d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Earth Institute   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

atlantic multidecadal oscillation; decadal prediction; pacific decadal oscillation; statistical prediction

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; COUPLED INTERACTION; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODELS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATISTICAL PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879895136     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50185     Document Type: Article

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