Summer drought predictability over Europe: Empirical versus dynamical forecasts

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Turco, Marco ^a,b   Ceglar, Andrej ^c   Prodhomme, Chloé ^b   Soret, Albert ^b   Toreti, Andrea ^c   Doblas Reyes Francisco, J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; seasonal forecasts; standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI)

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORECASTING; INSURANCE;

DYNAMICAL PREDICTIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INSURANCE COMPANIES; SEASONAL CLIMATE FORECAST; SEASONAL FORECASTS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION EVAPOTRANSPIRATION INDEX (SPEI); STREAMFLOW PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; SUMMER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EUROPE;

EID: 85029147642     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7859     Document Type: Article

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