A synoptic evaluation of the NCEP ensemble

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 140-153

  Toth, Zoltan ^a,b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a   Tracton, Steven M ^a   Wobus, Richard ^a,b   Irwin, Joseph ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE; FORECAST SKILL; NCEP; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0031452979     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0140:ASEOTN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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