Decadal hindcasts initialized using observed surface wind stress: Evaluation and prediction out to 2024

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 6454-6461

  Thoma, Malte ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^b   Kadow, Christopher ^c   Gerdes, Ruediger ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMIP5; decadal prediction; hiatus; skill scores

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; WIND STRESS;

CMIP5; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; EVALUATION AND PREDICTIONS; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HIATUS; INITIALIZATION PROCEDURES; SKILL SCORE; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; HINDCASTING; WIND STRESS;

EID: 84940446510     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064833     Document Type: Article

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