Theme II Projects: Seasons to Decades

Sub-theme II.1: Analysis and Mechanisms

• Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Southern and Northern Annular Modes

Sub-theme II.2: Predictability of the Coupled System

• Potential predictability of current and future climates
• Prognostic predictability from ensembles of coupled model simulations

Sub-theme II.3: Prediction

• Coupled Model Initialization
• The Coupled Model Historical Forecasting Project
• Forecast Combination, Calibration and Verification
• Sensitivity of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in the CCCma GCM to Initialization of Land Surface Hydrological States