Seasonal forecasts of tropical cyclone activity in a high-atmospheric- resolution coupled prediction system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1179-1200

  Manganello, Julia V ^a   Hodges, Kevin I ^b   Cash, Benjamin A ^a   Kinter, James L ^a,c   Altshuler, Eric L ^a   Fennessy, Michael J ^a   Vitart, Frederic ^d   Molteni, Franco ^d   Towers, Peter ^d  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Coupled models; Forecasting; Interannual variability; Models and modeling; Seasonal forecasting; Tropical cyclones; Variability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS;

COUPLED MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL FORECASTING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIABILITY;

FORECASTING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84957827987     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0531.1     Document Type: Article

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