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Seasonal Climate Diagnostics Consortium: Analysis of the NDJF 2002-03 climate forecasts and observations in NE U.S. (What the heck happened?). Tony Barnston, Arun Kumar, Lisa Goddard and Marty Hoerling CDPW, October 2003, Reno, Nevada. ‘ ‘. o.
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Seasonal Climate Diagnostics Consortium: Analysis of the NDJF 2002-03 climate forecasts and observations in NE U.S. (What the heck happened?) Tony Barnston, Arun Kumar, Lisa Goddard and Marty Hoerling CDPW, October 2003, Reno, Nevada
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CDC’s multi-model AGCM-mimicking CCA: Forecast made Nov 2002 for DJF 2002/03
DJF 2002-03 Surface Temperature Made November using predicted SST _______________________________________________________
CPC temperature forecast for DJF 2002-03 Made mid-November
IRI temperature forecast for DJF 2002-03 Made mid-November
X= significant error in IRI’s SST forecast X X X
CDC DJF 2002-03 From observed SST
From NOAA Climate Prediction Center wow wow gee whiz
Sign-Agreement Diagrams 200mb height 5 models plus obs 5 models
Ens Avg Individual ensemble members from the various models
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb Toward AGCM-generated probability forecasts
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
Fraction of ensemble members having positive anomaly (deviation from 0.5) 200mb
5 models 5 models 5 models + obs + obs + obs 5 models 5 models 5 models NDJF NDJF NDJF 2000-01 2001-02 1997-98
Reliability Diagram 1997-2001
Reliability Diagram longer “AMIP” period from Goddard et al. 2003 (EGS-AGU-EUG)