Global versus local MJO forecast skill of the ECMWF model during DYNAMO

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2228-2247

  Ling, Jian ^a,b,c   Bauer, Peter ^c   Bechtold, Peter ^c   Beljaars, Anton ^c   Forbes, Richard ^c   Vitart, Frederic ^c   Ulate, Marcela ^b   Zhang, Chidong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forecast verification skill; Intraseasonal variability; Operational forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84901602295     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00292.1     Document Type: Article

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