Is there a relationship between potential and actual skill?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2220-2227

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Peng, Peitao ^a   Chen, Mingyue ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Forecast verification skill; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; PREDICTION TIME; SEASONAL FORECASTING; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84901613213     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00287.1     Document Type: Article

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