Did a skillful prediction of sea surface temperatures help or hinder forecasting of the 2012 Midwestern US drought?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kam, Jonghun ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Yuan, Xing ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

midwest US drought; NMME; pacific SST teleconnections; singular value Decomposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NMME; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STRONG COUPLING; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TELECONNECTIONS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928096357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034005     Document Type: Article

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