A successful real-time forecast of the 2010–11 La Niña event
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Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, International Center for Climate and Environment Science (ICCES), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, State Oceanic Administration, Beijing, China.
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