Flow-dependent predictability of the North Atlantic jet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2411-2416

  Frame, T H A ^a,b   Methven, J ^b   Gray, S L ^b   Ambaum, M H P ^b  

^a NCAS Weather ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

jets; predictability; regimes

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LORENZ ATTRACTOR; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PREDICTABILITY; REGIMES; SENSITIVE REGIONS;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; JETS;

FORECASTING;

EDDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; JET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PREDICTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84879955235     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50454     Document Type: Article

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