Publications

2011

2010

1. Jones C., F. Fujioka, and L.M.V. Carvalho, 2010: Forecast skill of synoptic conditions associated with Santa Ana winds in southern California. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 4528-4541.

2. Janowiak, J.E., P. Bauer, W. Wang, P.A. Arkin, and J. Gottschalck, 2010: An evaluation of precipitation forecasts from operational models and reanalyses including precipitation variations associated with MJO activity. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 4542-4560.

3. Wu, R., and B.P. Kirtman, 2010: Caribbean Sea rainfall variability during the rainy season and relationship to the equatorial Pacific and tropical Atlantic SST. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0927-7.

4. Lee, J.-Y., B. Wang, Q. Ding, K.-J. Ha, J.-B. Ahn, A. Kumar, B. Stern, and O. Alves, 2010: How predictable is the northern hemisphere summer upper-tropospheric circulation? Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0909-9.

5. Huang, B., Y. Xue, D. Zhang, A. Kumar, and M.J. McPhaden, 2010: The NCEP GODAS ocean analysis of the tropical Pacific mixed layer heat budget on seasonal to interannual time scales. J. Climate, 23, 4901-4925.

6. Lee, H.-K., and D.V. Krishnamurthy, 2010: Spatial structure, forecast errors, and predictability of the South Asian monsoon in CFS monthly retrospective forecasts. Journal of Climate, 23, 4750-4769.

7. Seo, K.-H., and W. Wang, 2010: The Madden–Julian Oscillation simulated in the NCEP climate forecast system model: The importance of stratiform heating. J. Climate, 23, 4770-4793.

8. Verbist, K., A.W. Robertson, W.M. Cornelis, and D. Gabriels, 2010: Seasonal predictability of daily rainfall characteristics in central northern Chile for dry-land management. J. Appl. Meteor.and Climatol, 49, 1938-1955.

9. Higgins, R. W., V.E. Kousky, V.B.S. Silva, E. Becker, and P. Xie, 2010: Intercomparison of daily precipitation statistics over the United States in observations and in NCEP reanalysis products. J. Climate, 23, 4637-4650.

10. Weerts, A.H., J. Schellekens, and F.S. Weiland, 2010: Real-time geospatial data handling and forecasting: Examples from Delft-FEWS forecasting platform/system. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 3, 386-394.

11. Kumar, A., Mingyue Chen, and Wanqiu Wang, 2010: An analysis of prediction skill of monthly mean climate variability. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0901-4.
    Li, Y., and Song Yang, 2010: A dynamical index for the East Asian winter monsoon. J. Climate, 23, 4255-4262.

12. Gillies, R.R., S.-Y. Wang, J.-H. Yoon, and S. Weaver, 2010: CFS prediction of winter persistent inversions in the intermountain region. Wea. Forecasting, 25, 1211-1218.

13. Kelly, P., and B. Mapes, 2010: Land surface heating and the North American monsoon anticyclone: Model evaluation from diurnal to seasonal. J Climate, 23, 4096-4106.

14. Lim, Y.-K., S. Cocke, D.W. Shin, J.T. Schoof, T.E. LaRow, and J.J. O’Brien, 2010: Downscaling large-scale NCEP CFS to resolve fine-scale seasonal precipitation and extremes for the crop growing seasons over the southeastern United States. Climate Dynamics, 35, 449-471.

15. Xue, Y., F. Sales, W. K.-M. Lau, A. Boone, J. Feng, P. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, K.-M. Kim, A. Kitoh, V. Kumar, I. Poccard-Leclercq, N. Mahowald, W. Moufouma-Okia, P. Pegion, D.P. Rowell, J. Schemm, S.D. Schubert, A. Sealy, W.M. Thiaw, A. Vintzileos, S.F. Williams, and M.-L. C. Wu, 2010: Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) first model intercomparison experiment. Climate Dynamics, 35, 3-27.

16. Wang, W., M. Chen, and A Kumar, 2010: An assessment of the CFS real-time seasonal forecasts. Wea. Forecasting 25, 950-969.

17. Achuthavarier, D., and V. Krishnamurthy, 2010: Daily modes of South Asian summer monsoon variability in the NCEP climate forecast system. Climate Dynamics, 36, 1941-1958.

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