Madden-Julian Oscillation prediction skill of a new-generation global model demonstrated using a supercomputer

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Miyakawa, Tomoki ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b   Miura, Hiroaki ^a,b   Tomita, Hirofumi ^a,c   Yashiro, Hisashi ^c   Noda, Akira T ^a   Yamada, Yohei ^a   Kodama, Chihiro ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^b   Yoneyama, Kunio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; TROPICAL REGION;

MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; SKILL; STATISTICAL MODEL; WINTER;

EID: 84961290503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4769     Document Type: Article

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