Model error and seasonal forecasting

Antje Weisheimer

ECMWF, Predictability and Diagnostics Division, Reading, UK

Complex coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models initialised from observations are nowadays commonly used to issue dynamical seasonal forecasts with lead times of several months. This talk points out how big errors of seasonal forecast models are and discusses different strategies to address model uncertainty from linear statistical correction technique and pragmatic multi-model ensemble approaches to more physically based methodologies and stochastic parameterisations.

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