Decadal climate predictions for the period 1901-2010 with a coupled climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2100-2107

  Muller W A ^a   Pohlmann, H ^a   Sienz, F ^a   Smith, D ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decadal climate prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING;

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 84896690057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059259     Document Type: Article

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