Impact of land-surface initialization on sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts over Europe

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 919-935

  Prodhomme, Chloé ^a,c   Doblas Reyes, Francisco ^a,b,c   Bellprat, Omar ^a,c   Dutra, Emanuel ^d  

^a Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3)   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extreme; Heat wave; Land surface initialization; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT WAVE; LAND SURFACE; SEASONALITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84946110058     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2879-4     Document Type: Article

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