Performance of an Advanced MOS System in the 1996-97 National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2851-2857

  Vislocky, Robert L ^a   Fritsch, J Michael ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECAST SYSTEM; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031396582     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<2851:POAAMS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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