Impact of atmosphere and land surface initial conditions on seasonal forecasts of global surface temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 9253-9271

  Materia, Stefano ^a   Borrelli, Andrea ^a   Bellucci, Alessio ^a   Alessandri, Andrea ^a,c   di Pietro, Pierluigi ^b   Athanasiadis, Panagiotis ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a,b   Gualdi, Silvio ^a,b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Forecast verification skill; Model initialization; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORECASTING; MOISTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

COUPLED MODELS; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODEL INITIALIZATION; SEASONAL FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PREDICTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84919772817     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00163.1     Document Type: Article

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