Skilful multi-year predictions of tropical trans-basin climate variability

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chikamoto, Yoshimitsu ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^a   Luo, Jing Jia ^b   Mochizuki, Takashi ^c   Kimoto, Masahide ^d   Watanabe, Masahiro ^d   Ishii, Masayoshi ^e   Xie, Shang Ping ^f   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; SEA; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84928390568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7869     Document Type: Article

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