The role of air-sea coupling in seasonal prediction of Asia-pacific summer monsoon rainfall

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5689-5697

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a   Shukla, Jagadish ^a,b  

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

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate prediction; Monsoons; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; MONSOONS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; RAIN;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM;

EID: 84881239210     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00190.1     Document Type: Article

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