Improvement of initialized decadal predictions over the North Pacific Ocean by systematic anomaly pattern correction

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 5148-5162

  Kim, Hye Mi ^a   Ham, Yoo Geun ^b   Scaife, Adam A ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Model comparison; Model errors; Model evaluation performance; North Pacific Oscillation; Pacific decadal oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR CORRECTION; FORECASTING;

COUPLED MODELS; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; HINDCASTING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84903398980     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00519.1     Document Type: Article

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