A New Method for Determining the Optimal Lagged Ensemble

Laurie L Trenary1,2, Timothy M DelSole1,3, Michael K Tippett4,5 and Kathleen Pegion6, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Center for Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Studies Fairfax, Atmospheric,Oceanic, and Earth Science, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Atmospheric,Oceanic, and Earth Scinece, Fairfax, VA, United States, (4)King Abdulaziz University, Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research, Department of Meteorology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, (5)Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States