Sea surface salinity and temperature-based predictive modeling of southwestern US winter precipitation: improvements, errors, and potential mechanisms

Tianjia Liu, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Raymond W Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Laifang Li, Duke Univ-Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC, United States