Improved reliability of ENSO hindcasts with multi-ocean analyses ensemble initialization

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2785-2795

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a,b   Balmaseda, Magdalena A ^c   Kinter III, James L ^a,b   Peng, Peitao ^d   Hu, Zeng Zhen ^d   Marx, Lawrence ^a  

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

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CFSv2; ENSO prediction; Multi ocean analyses ensemble; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886676249     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1965-8     Document Type: Article

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