The North American multimodel ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 585-601

  Kirtman, Ben P ^a   Min, Dughong ^a   Infanti, Johnna M ^a   Kinter III, James L ^b   Paolino, Daniel A ^b   Zhang, Qin ^c   Van Den Dool, Huug ^c   Saha, Suranjana ^c   Mendez, Malaquias Pena ^c   Becker, Emily ^c   Peng, Peitao ^c   Tripp, Patrick ^c   Huang, Jin ^c   Dewitt, David G ^e,f   Tippett, Michael K ^d,e   Barnston, Anthony G ^e   Li, Shuhua ^e   Rosati, Anthony ^f   Schubert, Siegfried D ^g   Rienecker, Michele ^g   Suarez, Max ^g   Li, Zhao E ^g   Marshak, Jelena ^g   Lim, Young Kwon ^g   Tribbia, Joseph ^h   Pegion, Kathleen ⁱ   Merryfield, William J ^j   Denis, Bertrand ^j   Wood, Eric F ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Earth Institute   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^k PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECISION SUPPORTS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REAL-TIME PREDICTION;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84885653293     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00050.1     Document Type: Article

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