Evaluation of forecast strategies for seasonal and decadal forecasts in presence of systematic model errors

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2393-2409

  Magnusson, Linus ^a   Alonso Balmaseda, Magdalena ^a   Corti, Susanna ^a,b   Molteni, Franco ^a   Stockdale, Tim ^a  

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

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomaly initialisation; Decadal forecasting; Flux correction; Forecast strategies; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; DECADAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84886717821     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1599-2     Document Type: Article

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