Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Forecasts Provide the Backbone of a Near-Real-Time Event Explainer Service

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Hope, Pandora, Zhao, Mei, Abhik, S., Tolhurst, Gen, McKay, Roseanna C., Rauniyar, Surendra P., Bettio, Lynette, Ramchurn, Avijeet, Lim, Eun-Pa, Pepler, Acacia S, Cowan, Tim and Watkins, Andrew B.. 2022. "Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Forecasts Provide the Backbone of a Near-Real-Time Event Explainer Service." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103 (3), pp. S7-S13. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0253.1
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Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Forecasts Provide the Backbone of a Near-Real-Time Event Explainer Service

ERA Journal ID1961
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsHope, Pandora (Author), Zhao, Mei (Author), Abhik, S. (Author), Tolhurst, Gen (Author), McKay, Roseanna C. (Author), Rauniyar, Surendra P. (Author), Bettio, Lynette (Author), Ramchurn, Avijeet (Author), Lim, Eun-Pa (Author), Pepler, Acacia S (Author), Cowan, Tim (Author) and Watkins, Andrew B. (Author)
Journal TitleBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Journal Citation103 (3), pp. S7-S13
Number of Pages7
Year2022
Place of PublicationUnited States
ISSN0003-0007
1520-0477
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0253.1
Web Address (URL)https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/3/BAMS-D-21-0253.1.xml
Abstract

The Bureau of Meteorology serves the Australian community to reduce its climate risk and is developing a suite of tools to explain the drivers of extreme events. Dynamical sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasts form the backbone of the service, potentially enabling it to be run in near real time.

KeywordsSeasonal climate; Subseasonal
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020370299. Climate change science not elsewhere classified
370101. Adverse weather events
370108. Meteorology
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Byline AffiliationsAustralian Bureau of Meteorology
Centre for Applied Climate Sciences
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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