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Coupled GCM’s Ensembles Statistical

System 3
ECMWF
Europe
POAMA2
BoM
Australia
SINTEX
JAMSTEC
Japan
CFS03
NCEP
USA
GSM
ECPC
USA
UKMO
UK
IRI
USA
APCC
Korea
BoM
Seasonal
Forecast
QDNRM
Qld
Australia
ESS
DAF
WA
Month of Run
Forecast months

Sept
SON

Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Sept
SON
Spring Pacific
Ocean NINO3.4
Slightly cool Cool
(weak La Nina)
Cool
(weak La Nina)
Slightly cool

Slightly cool


Slightly cool
Spring Eastern
Indian Ocean
Neutral Slightly cool
(weak IOD+)
Neutral
(weak IOD+)
Neutral Neutral
(IOD+)
Neutral




Spring
Rainfall
Slightly wetter? Average Slightly wetter? Average Average Average Neutral W,
Slightly wetter E
Average Average,
slightly drier
SW
Average Average
S, slightly
wetter N
Spring Temperature Slightly warmer? Average Average W,
slightly cooler E
Average, slightly
warmer E Gipps
Average
W, slightly
warmer E
Slightly warmer Neutral W,
slightly warmer
E
Slightly warmer Warmer

Forecast Months JFM DJF DJF JFM JFM DJF JFM



Summer Pacific
Ocean NINO 3.4
Slightly cool Cool
(weak La Nina)
Cool
(La Nina)
Cool
(La Nina)

Cool
(weak La Nina)
Slightly cool



Summer Eastern
Indian Ocean
Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral Neutral



Summer Rainfall Average W?,
slightly wetter E?
Average, slightly
wetter E Gipps, NE
Average W,
slightly wetter E
Average W,
slightly wetter E
Average W,
wetter E
Average Average



Summer
Temperature
Slightly warmer? Average Average W,
slightly cooler E
Average Average Average,
slightly warmer
SW
Average



Comments Victoria doesn’t feature
on their map of the
world!
Experimental Experimental



Experimental
summary for 20 CGC
models.
Comparison between
current SST’s and
historic rainfall
5 phase
system based
on previous 2
months SOI
David Stephens
and team. NINO
3 SST.
Web Address http://www.ecmwf.int/
products/forecasts/d/
charts/seasonal/
forecast/
http://poama.bom.
gov.au/experimental/
poama15/
rs_map.htm
http://www.jamstec.
go.jp/frcgc/research/
d1/iod/
http://www.cpc.ncep.
noaa.gov/products/
people/wwang/
cfs_fcst/
http://ecpc.ucsd.
edu/projects/
GSM_seasons.
html
http://www.metoffi ce.
gov.uk/research/
climate/seasonal-todecadal/
gpcoutlooks
http://portal.iri.
columbia.edu/portal/
server.pt?space= Co
mmunityPage&contr
ol=SetCommunity&C
ommunityID=580&P
ageID=0
http://www.apcc21.
org/en/services/
apccoperational-
3-monthmme-
prediction/
forecasts/outlook/
http://www.bom.gov.
au/climate/ahead/
rain_ahead.shtml
http://www.
longpaddock.qld.
gov.au
http://www.
agric.wa.gov.au/
content/LWE/
CLI/CLIMATE_
INDEX.htm

 

Wetter = increased chances of wetter than average conditions.
Drier = increased chances of drier than average conditions.
Warmer = increased chances of warmer than average conditions.
Cooler = increased chances of cooler than average conditions.
Neutral = the chances of wet, average and dry or warm, average and cool are equal.