Figure 2
From: Land-surface initialisation improves seasonal climate prediction skill for maize yield forecast
Effects of land-surface initialisation in the seasonal climate forecast. (a) Pearson correlation between the CSI derived from E − OBS observational data and different seasonal forecast experiments using climatological (CLIM05 and CLIM06 for May and June runs, respectively) and realistic land-surface initialisation (INIT05 and INIT06 for May and June runs, respectively). The forecast CSI is calculated from initial condition ensemble average for each experiment. The significance of correlation is indicated by the size of symbols; larger size indicates significant correlations (p < 0.05), whereas smaller size indicates non-significant correlations. (b) same as (a) but correlation is calculated between the forecasted CSI and the observed standardised maize yield anomalies (Ystd,*).
