Assessment of quantitative precipitation forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-83

  Johnson, Lynn E ^a,b   Olsen, Billy G ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c National Weather Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECAST;

EID: 0031901827     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0075:AOQPF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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