Improvements in the representation of the Indian summer monsoon in the NCEP climate forecast system version 2

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2485-2498

  Bombardi, Rodrigo J ^a   Schneider, Edwin K ^a,b   Marx, Lawrence ^b   Halder, Subhadeep ^a   Singh, Bohar ^a   Tawfik, Ahmed B ^a,b   Dirmeyer, Paul A ^a,b   Kinter, James L ^a,b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies Institute of Global Environment and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

CFSv2; Convection; Indian summer monsoon; Seasonal predictability; Trigger function

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; MONSOON; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TRIGGER MECHANISM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA;

EID: 84946480972     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2484-6     Document Type: Article

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