Predictability of the quasi-biennial oscillation and its northern winter teleconnection on seasonal to decadal timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1752-1758

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Athanassiadou, Maria ^a   Andrews, Martin ^a   Arribas, Alberto ^a   Baldwin, Mark ^b   Dunstone, Nick ^a   Knight, Jeff ^a   Maclachlan, Craig ^a   Manzini, Elisa ^c   Müller, Wolfgang A ^c   Pohlmann, Holger ^c   Smith, Doug ^a   Stockdale, Tim ^d   Williams, Andrew ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

decadal forecast; QBO; seasonal forecast

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECAST SYSTEMS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; QBO; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL FORECASTS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; GRAVITY WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84895632115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059160     Document Type: Article

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