On the potential of extratropical SST anomalies for improving climate predictions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2557-2569

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Wang, Hui ^a,b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Innovim   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Decadal prediction; Seasonal prediction; Skill of climate predictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925492160     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2398-8     Document Type: Article

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