Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Skilful predictions of the Asian summer monsoon one year ahead

  • Yuhei Takaya,
  • Yu Kosaka,
  • Masahiro Watanabe,
  • Shuhei Maeda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22299-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Long-range predictions of the Asian summer monsoon remain challenging due to its complex atmosphere–land–ocean interactions. Here, the authors show that a large ensemble of model simulations can predict the Asian summer monsoon and associated summer tropical cyclone activity more than one year ahead.