Improving forecasting performance by combining forecasts: The example of road-surface temperature forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-265

  Brown, Barbara G ^a   Murphy, Allan H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Prediction and Evaluation Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMBINED FORECASTS; COMBINING FORECASTS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; FORECASTING PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION MODELLING; ROAD SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SMALL SAMPLES;

FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; ROAD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0000033194     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.5060030307     Document Type: Article

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