Predictability and prediction skill of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation in the Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 7-8, 2015, Pages 2123-2135

  Lee, Sun Seon ^a   Wang, Bin ^a,b   Waliser, Duane E ^c,d   Neena, Joseph Mani ^c   Lee, June Yi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Los Angeles   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Boreal summer intraseasnal oscillation; Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE); Predictability; Prediction skill

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

EID: 84943820229     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2461-5     Document Type: Article

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