"Predictability studies" refer to research or investigations carried out to understand and determine the level of certainty or likelihood of a particular event or outcome occurring in the future.
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Latif, M., M. Collins, H. Pohlmann, and N. Keenlyside, 2006: A review
of predictability studies of Atlantic sector climate on decadal time scales.
The potential to make skillful forecasts on these timescales, and the ability to do so, is investigated by means
of predictability studies and retrospective forecasts (termed hindcasts) using climate models and statistical approaches.
Schneider, T., and S. M. Griffies, 1999: A conceptual framework for
predictability studies.
Regionally focussed on the North Atlantic and Arctic, his expertise includes modelling of thermohaline processes and climate
predictability studies.
He has been working on
the predictability studies using radiosonde observations and data assimilation technique.
Component C, Predictability, mechanisms, and case studies: the organization and coordination of decadal climate
predictability studies and of case studies of particular climate shifts and variations, including the study of the mechanisms that determine these behaviours