Does an ENSO-conditional skill mask improve seasonal predictions?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4515-4533

  Pegion, Kathy ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FORECASTING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OPTIMAL WEIGHTING; SEASONAL PREDICTION; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; SKILL SCORE; STATISTICAL TOOLS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896956312     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00317.1     Document Type: Review

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