Improved seasonal prediction of temperature and precipitation over land in a high-resolution GFDL climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2044-2062

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

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Forecast verification skill; Seasonal forecasting

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECAST VERIFICATION/SKILL; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SEASONAL PREDICTION; STATISTICAL OPTIMIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84961289701     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00112.1     Document Type: Article

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