Extended range prediction of active-break spells of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using an ensemble prediction system in NCEP Climate Forecast System

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 98-113

  Abhilash, S ^a   Sahai, A K ^a   Pattnaik, S ^b   Goswami, B N ^a   Kumar, Arun ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble prediction system; Extended range prediction; Indian summer monsoon

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EXTENDED RANGE; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR);

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84891742274     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.3668     Document Type: Article

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