Predictability and forecast skill in NMME

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5891-5906

  Becker, Emily ^a   Van den Dool, Huug ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION RATES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL VARIATION;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84925991639     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00597.1     Document Type: Article

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