Predictability of the Madden-Julian oscillation in the Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE)

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4531-4543

  Neena, J M ^a   Lee, June Yi ^b,c   Waliser, Duane ^a,d   Wang, Bin ^b   Jiang, Xianan ^a  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden Julian oscillation, Forecast verification skill, Hindcasts, Coupled models, General circulation models, Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS;

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PREDICTABILITY LIMIT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84902106535     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00624.1     Document Type: Article

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