Atmospheric predictability and Rossby wave packets

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 692, 2015, Pages 2793-2802

  Grazzini, Federico ^a   Vitart, Frédéric ^b  

^a ARPA SIMC   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Dynamic climatology; Feature tracking; Long range prediction; Madden Julian Oscillation; Predictability; Rossby wave packets; Rossby wave train; Severe events

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; WAVE PACKETS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FEATURE-TRACKING; LONG RANGE PREDICTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PREDICTABILITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SEVERE EVENTS;

MECHANICAL WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATOLOGY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PREDICTION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEVERE WEATHER; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946473997     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2564     Document Type: Article

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