Skill improvement from increased ensemble size and model diversity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7331-7342

  DelSole, Timothy ^a   Nattala, Jyothi ^a   Tippett, Michael K ^b,c  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

forecast skill

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; HINDCASTS; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; MULTI-MODEL COMBINATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NORTH AMERICAN; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

FORECASTING;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SIZE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84911381770     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060133     Document Type: Article

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