The complex relationship between forecast skill and forecast value: A real-world analysis

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 544-559

  Roebber, Paul J ^a   Bosart, Lance F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECAST SKILL; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0030391632     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011<0544:TCRBFS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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