PNA predictability at various time scales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 9090-9114

  Younas, Waqar ^a   Tang, Youmin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Ensembles; Forecast verification skill; Pacific North American pattern oscillation; Synoptic scale processes; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ENSEMBLES; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICAN PATTERN/OSCILLATION; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESS; TELECONNECTIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TELECONNECTION;

EID: 84888044196     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00609.1     Document Type: Article

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