A framework for diagnosing seasonal prediction through canonical event analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2404-2418

  Roundy, Joshua K ^a,c   Yuan, Xing ^a   Schaake, John ^b   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Hydrological Services Branch NASA GSFC ^*  (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Hindcasts; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HINDCASTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

FORECASTING;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943374878     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00190.1     Document Type: Article

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