The potential for skill across the range of the seamless weather-climate prediction problem: A stimulus for our science

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 672, 2013, Pages 573-584

  Hoskins, Brian ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Predictability; Time scales

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; ITS APPLICATIONS; PREDICTABILITY; PREDICTIVE POWER; TIME-SCALES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIMESCALE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84884312652     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1991     Document Type: Article

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