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- Title
Probabilistic rainy season onset prediction over the greater horn of africa based on long-range multi-model ensemble forecasts.
- Authors
Scheuerer, Michael; Bahaga, Titike K.; Segele, Zewdu T.; Thorarinsdottir, Thordis L.
- Abstract
This works proposes a probabilistic framework for rainy season onset forecasts over Greater Horn of Africa derived from bias-corrected, long range, multi-model ensemble precipitation forecasts. A careful analysis of the contribution of the different forecast systems to the overall multi-model skill shows that the improvement over the best performing individual model can largely be explained by the increased ensemble size. An alternative way of increasing ensemble size by blending a single model ensemble with climatology is explored and demonstrated to yield better probabilistic forecasts than the multi-model ensemble. Both reliability and skill of the probabilistic forecasts are better for OND onset than for MAM and JJAS onset where forecasts are found to be late biased and have only minimal skill relative to climatology. The insights gained in this study will help enhance operational subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting in the GHA region.
- Subjects
HORN of Africa; FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION forecasting; SEASONS; CLIMATOLOGY
- Publication
Climate Dynamics, 2024, Vol 62, Issue 5, p3587
- ISSN
0930-7575
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00382-023-07085-y