Evaluating precipitation prediction skill for the pre- and postrainy seasons in South China in ECMWF subseasonal forecasts

Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 2 Correlations between indices and precipitation for ERA-Interim and ECMWF predictions

Correlation	Index
	Prerainy season in South China			Postrainy season in South China
	BHP	U850	U200	EU	U850	U200
Index.ERA and P.ERA	*0.61*	*0.85*	*0.54*	*0.51*	*0.63*	0.20
Index.S2S and P.S2S	0.35	*0.78*	*0.45*	0.30	*0.56*	*0.58*

The bolditalics indicate the 90% confidence level or higher when the normal fonts indicate nonsignificant results