An assessment of the ENSO forecast skill of GEOS-5 system

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2415-2430

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,b,c   Schubert, Siegfried ^a   Vikhliaev, Yury ^a,d   Suarez, Max J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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EID: 84893173280     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2063-2     Document Type: Article

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