Evaluation of MJO predictive skill in multiphysics and multimodel global ensembles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 2555-2574

  Green, Benjamin W ^a,b   Sun, Shan ^a,b   Bleck, Rainer ^a,b,c   Benjamin, Stanley G ^b   Grell, Georg A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Ensembles; Intraseasonal variability; Madden Julian oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; OSCILLATING FLOW;

CLIMATE FORECASTS; COUPLED MODELS; ENSEMBLES; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 85021297654     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0419.1     Document Type: Article

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