Subseasonal forecast skills and biases of global summer monsoons in the NCEP Climate Forecast System version 2

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1487-1508

  Liu, Xiangwen ^a   Yang, Song ^b   Li, Qiaoping ^a   Kumar, Arun ^c   Weaver, Scott ^c   Liu, Shi ^d  

^a China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Institute of Meteorological Science of Jilin Province   (China)

Author keywords

Global monsoons; NCEP CFSv2; Subseasonal prediction biases; Subseasonal prediction skill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894310485     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1831-8     Document Type: Article

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