Lagged ensembles, forecast configuration, and seasonal predictions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3477-3497

  Chen, Mingyue ^a   Wang, Wanqiu ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; ENSEMBLES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTS; SEASONAL PREDICTION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GUIDELINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84881030326     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00184.1     Document Type: Article

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