Predicting Daily Mean Wind Speed in Europe Weeks ahead from MJO Status

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant 776787 (S2S4E) and from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MICINN) as part of the CLINSA project (CGL2017-85791-R). The authors acknowledge Australian Bureau of Meteorology for providing the MJO RMM historical indices, and the S2S project for providing the MJO indices from ECMWF MFS forecasts and ERA-Interim. The authors want to thank Nicolau Manubens for technical support with the startR R package, which allows processing big memory arrays by chunks in a cluster and then merges the results back together. Many analyses would have not been possible without this package. The CSTools R package was also used to produce some figures. Pierre-Antoine Bretonniere and Margarida Samso helped downloading and formatting the surface wind datasets. The authors want to thank Frederic Vitart and Laura Ferranti for helping with the interpretation of some results, and Veronica Torralba for helping to structure the material.

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