How to judge the quality and value of weather forecast products

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 307-314

  Thornes, John E ^a   Stephenson, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC VALUES; FALSE ALARM RATE; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST PRODUCTS; VALUE FOR MONIES; VALUE INDICES; VALUE STATISTICS; WEATHER SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA QUALITY; MODEL VALIDATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0000324191     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482701003061     Document Type: Article

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