Hi David and/or Blair,
I noticed something that really caught my eye before. EC's forecast for NDJ has very high probabilities of warm 2m temp anomalies over almost all the tropics/subtropics of the planet. The example I looked at is attached. So I decided to check some more and found this was also reflected in the upper 1/3rd of the prob distribution as well as the highest 20% of the distribution (huge expanse of warm temps). This continues out to all lead times and seems to even spread with time.
The multimodel Eurosip shows the same thing. The expanse of these anomalies also shows up well on IRI's multimodel forecast for NDJ (attached). UK, JMA & CFS (which was only initialised 2 days ago) seem to be less dramatic about the whole thing. Does the widespread nature of these anomalies seem a bit odd to you?
Ken.
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4th Nov 09 - EC seasonal forecast for NDJ.gif
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4th Nov 09 - IRI temperature anomaly probabilities for NDJ.gif
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