Calibrating climate change time-slice projections with estimates of seasonal forecast reliability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3831-3840

  Matsueda, M ^a,b   Weisheimer, A ^b,c   Palmer, T N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; RELIABILITY; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECTIONS; DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL FORECASTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85015263329     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0087.1     Document Type: Article

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