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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
卷 25, 期 13, 页码 4744-4749出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00651.1
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- National Science Foundation [ATM-0830068]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [NA09OAR4310058]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States [NNX09AN50G, NNX09AI84G]
- NASA [115389, NNX09AI84G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Total predictability within a chaotic system like the earth's climate cannot increase over time. However, it can be transferred between subsystems. Predictability of air temperature and precipitation in numerical model forecasts over North America rebounds during late spring to summer because of information stored in the land surface. Specifically, soil moisture anomalies can persist over several months, but this memory cannot affect the atmosphere during early spring because of a lack of coupling between land and atmosphere. Coupling becomes established in late spring, enabling the effects of soil moisture anomalies to increase atmospheric predictability in 2-month forecasts begun as early as 1 May. This predictability is maintained through summer and then drops as coupling fades again in fall. This finding suggests summer forecasts of rainfall and air temperature over parts of North America could be significantly improved with soil moisture observations during spring.
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