CBS/CCL EXPERT TEAM ON OPERATIONAL PREDICTIONS FROM SUB-SEASONAL TO LONG TIME-SCALES
Exeter, UK, 10-14 March 2014
CBS-DPFS/ET-OPSLS/Doc. 7.1(2)
(05.III.2014)
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Agenda item : 7.1(b)
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(Submitted by Jean-Pierre Ceron and Richard Graham)
Summary and purpose of document
This document provides background information on candidate climate indices that GPCs could be requested to predict as part of their mandatory or highly recommended products
Reference: - GPC/RCC Brasilia workshop
Climate Indices relevant for Monitoring and/or Forecasting at seasonal scales
J.P. Céron – jean-pierre.ceron@meteo.fr
Prepared 29/06/2012 Candidate indices to discuss for revising mandatory and highly recommended outputs from the GPCs (ref. recommendations of the GPC/RCC Brasilia workshop).
Oceanic Indices
Pacific : Niño boxes (4, 3.4, 3, 1+2), PDO, Indonesian sea (what’s about Niño 5 and 6 ; I got the definition but who is using ?)
Atlantic : NTA, STA, Guinean Gulf, TASI, NMA, NWA, (what’s about AMO ?)
Indian Ocean : WTIO, SETIO, IOD, SWIO
Global : Tropics (10°S-10°N), “EOF 3” (Global Inter-Hemispheric Mode),