CFS Forecast of Monthly Climate Anomalies for

This page provides monthly climate anomalies from the NCEP coupled forecast system model (CFS03). Four forecast runs are produced each day for 9 target months. Initial conditions are from the NCEP/DOE Reanalysis-2 (R2) for the atmosphere and from NCEP global ocean data assimilation system (GODAS) for the ocean. The forecast displayed here is ensemble mean of 4 forecast members from initial conditions of the latest available day. All anomalies are with respect to 1981-2006 hindcast climatology.  

Initial Condition	SST	Prec	T2m	z200	z700	US Prec	US T2m
Sep. 17, 2012
Sep. 16, 2012
Sep. 15, 2012
Sep. 14, 2012
Sep. 13, 2012
Sep. 12, 2012
Sep. 11, 2012

	US Prec		US T2m
	spatial map	skill	spatial map	skill
Oct. 2012 from Sep. 2012 initial conditions
Sep. 2012 from Aug. 2012 initial conditions
Aug. 2012 from Jul. 2012 initial conditions
Jul. 2012 from Jun. 2012 initial conditions
Jun. 2012 from May. 2012 initial conditions
May. 2012 from Apr. 2012 initial conditions
Apr. 2012 from Mar. 2012 initial conditions
Mar. 2012 from Feb. 2012 initial conditions
Feb. 2012 from Jan. 2012 initial conditions
Jan. 2012 from Dec. 2011 initial conditions
Dec. 2011 from Nov. 2011 initial conditions
Nov. 2011 from Oct. 2011 initial conditions
Oct. 2011 from Sep. 2011 initial conditions
Sep. 2011 from Aug. 2011 initial conditions
Aug. 2011 from Jul. 2011 initial conditions
Jul. 2011 from Jun. 2011 initial conditions
Jun. 2011 from May. 2011 initial conditions
May. 2011 from Apr. 2011 initial conditions
Apr. 2011 from Mar. 2011 initial conditions
Mar. 2011 from Feb. 2011 initial conditions
Feb. 2011 from Jan. 2011 initial conditions
Jan. 2011 from Dec. 2010 initial conditions
Dec. 2010 from Nov. 2010 initial conditions
Nov. 2010 from Oct. 2010 initial conditions
Oct. 2010 from Sep. 2010 initial conditions
Sep. 2010 from Aug. 2010 initial conditions
Aug. 2010 from Jul. 2010 initial conditions
Jul. 2010 from Jun. 2010 initial conditions
Jun. 2010 from May. 2010 initial conditions
May. 2010 from Apr. 2010 initial conditions
Apr. 2010 from Mar. 2010 initial conditions
Mar. 2010 from Feb. 2010 initial conditions
Feb. 2010 from Jan. 2010 initial conditions
Jan. 2010 from Dec. 2009 initial conditions
Dec. 2009 from Nov. 2009 initial conditions

Jan. 2008	Feb. 2008	Mar. 2008	Apr. 2008	May 2008	June 2008
July 2008	Aug. 2008	Sep. 2008	Oct. 2008	Nov. 2008	Dec. 2008
Jan. 2009	Feb. 2009	Mar. 2009	Apr. 2009	May 2009	June 2009
July 2009	Aug. 2009	Sep. 2009	Oct. 2009	Nov. 2009	Dec. 2009
Jan. 2010	Feb. 2010	Mar. 2010	Apr. 2010	May 2010	June 2010
July 2010	Aug. 2010	Sep. 2010	Oct. 2010	Nov. 2010	Dec. 2010