Impact of initialization procedures on the predictive skill of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 2014, Pages 3151-3169

  Polkova, Iuliia ^a   Köhl, Armin ^b   Stammer, Detlef ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomaly initialization; Decadal predictions; Flux correction; Full state initialization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84896076668     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1969-4     Document Type: Article

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