Predictability of the summer East Asian upper-tropospheric westerly jet in ENSEMBLES multi-model forecasts

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1669-1682

  Li, Chaofan ^a   Lin, Zhongda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

coupled model; East Asian westerly jet; meridional displacement; seasonal prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944455725     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-5057-z     Document Type: Article

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