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Excessive Momentum and False Alarms in Late‐Spring ENSO Forecasts
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2020
Source: Geophysical Research Letters, 47(8)
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Journal Title:Geophysical Research Letters
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Description:The unanticipated stalled El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) evolution of 2014 raises questions about the reliability of the coupled models that were used for forecast guidance. Here we have analyzed the skill and reliability of forecasts of the Niño 3.4 tendency (3-month change) in the North American multimodel ensemble (1982–2018). We found that forecasts initialized April–June (AMJ) have“excessive momentum” in the sense that the forecast Niño 3.4 tendency is more likely to be a continuation of the prior observed conditions than it should be. Models tend to predict warming when initialized after observed warming conditions and cooling when initialized after observed cooling conditions. Excessivemomentum appears in AMJ forecast busts and false alarms including the 2014 one. In some models, excessive momentum appears to be related to model formulation rather than initialization. A concerning
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Source:Geophysical Research Letters, 47(8)
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ISSN:0094-8276;1944-8007;
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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Rights Statement:This article has been contributed to by US Government employees and their work is in the public domain in the USA.
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