Statistical Characteristics of a real-time precipitation forecasting model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 966-982

  Gaudet, Brian ^a   Cotton, William R ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION FORECASTING MODELS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

FORECASTING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032419744     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0966:SCOART>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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