Development of a tropical ecological forecasting strategy for ENSO based on the ACME modeling framework

Forrest M Hoffman, PhD1, Dr. Min Xu2, Nathan Collier2, Chonggang Xu3, Bradley O Christoffersen3, Yiqi Luo4, Daniel M Ricciuto5, Paul Alexander Levine6 and James Tremper Randerson7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States