Predictability of seasonal climate variations: A pedagogical review

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Volumn 9780521848824, Issue , 2006, Pages 306-341

  Shukla, Jagadish ^a   Kinter, J L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GROWTH RATE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RAINFALL PATTERNS; SATURATION VALUES; WEATHER PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84926990606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617652.013     Document Type: Chapter

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