The NCEP climate forecast system version 2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2185-2208

  Saha, Suranjana ^a   Moorthi, Shrinivas ^a   Wu, Xingren ^b   Wang, Jiande ^c   Nadiga, Sudhir ^b   Tripp, Patrick ^b   Behringer, David ^a   Hou, Yu Tai ^a   Chuang, Hui Ya ^a   Iredell, Mark ^a   Ek, Michael ^a   Meng, Jesse ^b   Yang, Rongqian ^b   Mendez, Malaquías Peña ^b   Van Den Dool, Huug ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Wang, Wanqiu ^a   Chen, Mingyue ^a   Becker, Emily ^d  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Hindcasts; Land surface model; Ocean models; Operational forecasting; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

COUPLED MODELS; HINDCASTS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; OCEAN MODEL; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTING;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; HINDCASTING; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896093136     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00823.1     Document Type: Article

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