Impact of improved assimilation of temperature and salinity for coupled model seasonal forecasts

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2565-2583

  Zhao, Mei ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a   Alves, Oscar ^a   Yin, Yonghong ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Prediction skill of ENSO; Seasonal forecast

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HALOCLINE; HINDCASTING; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOCLINE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84899907102     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2081-0     Document Type: Article

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