Calibration, bridging, and merging to improve GCM seasonal temperature forecasts in Australia

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2421-2441

  Schepen, Andrew ^a,c   Wang, Q J ^a   Everingham, Yvette ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DECISION MAKING; MERGING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FORECASTING SKILL; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; OUTPUT VARIABLES; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; RAINFALL FORECASTS; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL MODELING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CALIBRATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84974822346     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0384.1     Document Type: Article

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