ENSO Prediction in Project Minerva: Sensitivity to atmospheric horizontal resolution and ensemble size

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2080-2095

  Zhu, Jieshun ^a   Huang, Bohua ^a   Cash, Ben ^a   Kinter, James L ^a   Manganello, Julia ^a   Barimalala, Rondrotiana ^a   Altshuler, Eric ^a   Vitart, Frederic ^b   Molteni, Franco ^b   Towers, Peter ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate models; ENSO; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CENTER FOR OCEAN-LAND-ATMOSPHERE STUDIES; ENSO; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEASONAL FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84961287957     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00302.1     Document Type: Article

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