Evaluation of Coupled Model Forecasts of Ethiopian Highlands Summer Climate

Figure 4

Bar charts summarizing model correlation with highlands area-averaged NMA-GPCC JJA rainfall (top) and CRU3 JJA maximum temperature (lower) for CFS ((a) and (d)) and ECMWF ((b) and (e)). (c) Model correlation in first and second half of sample. (f) Comparison of forecast persistence from January. Correlation values above 0.32 are significant at 90% confidence.

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