The ocean's role in modeling and predicting seasonal-to-interannual climate variations

International Geophysics

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 625-643

  Kirtman, Ben P ^a   Stockdale, Tim ^b   Burgman, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interactions; Forecast quality; High resolution; Predictability; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886432504     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00024-6     Document Type: Chapter

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