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Week 34 predictability over the United States assessed from two operational ensemble prediction systems
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2019
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Source: Clim Dyn 52, 5861–5875
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Journal Title:Climate Dynamics
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Description:The subseasonal predictability of surface temperature and precipitation is examined using two global ensemble prediction systems (ECMWF VarEPS and NCEP CFSv2), with an emphasis on the week 3–4 lead (i.e. 15–28 days ahead) fortnight-average anomaly correlation skill over the United States, in each calendar season. Although the ECMWF system exhibits slightly higher skill for both temperature and precipitation in general, these two systems show similar geographical variations in the week 3–4 skill in all seasons and encouraging skill in certain regions. The regions of skill are then interpreted in terms of large-scale teleconnection patterns. Over the southwest US in summer, the North American monsoon system leads to higher skill in precipitation and surface temperature, while high skill over northern California in spring is found to be associated with the seasonal variability of the Arctic Oscillation (AO). During winter, in particular, week 3–4 predictability is found to be higher during extreme phases of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Pacific-North American (PNA)/Tropical-Northern Hemisphere mode, and AO/North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Both forecast systems are found to predict these teleconnection indices quite skillfully, with the anomaly correlation of the wintertime NAO and PNA exceeding 0.5 for both models. In both models, the subseasonal contribution to the PNA skill is found to be larger than for the NAO, where the seasonal component is large.
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Source:Clim Dyn 52, 5861–5875
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