Multimodel seasonal forecasting of global drought onset

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4900-4905

  Yuan, Xing ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

climate model; drought; ENSO; precipitation; predictability; seasonal forecast

Indexed keywords

ENSO; EQUITABLE THREAT SCORE; FORECASTING PROBLEMS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; OSCILLATION SIGNALS; PREDICTABILITY; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

DROUGHT;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84884179958     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50949     Document Type: Article

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