Effective use of general circulation model outputs for forecasting monthly rainfalls to long lead times

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 5427-5436

  Hawthorne, Sandra ^a   Wang, Q J ^a   Schepen, Andrew ^b   Robertson, David ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bridging; calibration; coupled general circulation model; long lead forecast; merging; monthly rainfall

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; MERGING; RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; BRIDGING; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONG LEADS; MONTHLY RAINFALLS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATISTICAL CALIBRATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONG RANGE FORECAST; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84883534081     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20453     Document Type: Article

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