Seasonal predictability of extratropical storm tracks in GFDL's high-resolution climate prediction model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3592-3611

  Yang, Xiaosong ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,c   Gudgel, Rich G ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a,c   Zhang, Shaoqing ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Jia, Liwei ^a,b   Stern, William F ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Kapnick, Sarah ^c   Msadek, Rym ^a,b   Underwood, Seth D ^d   Zeng, Fanrong ^a   Anderson, Whit ^a   Balaji, Venkatramani ^a,c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Coupled models; ENSO; Extratropical cyclones; Forecast verification skill; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; SEA LEVEL; STORMS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODELS; ENSO; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET FLOW; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84961289230     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00517.1     Document Type: Article

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