Localized precipitation forecasts from a numerical weather prediction model using artificial neural networks

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1194-1204

  Kuligowski, Robert J ^a   Barros, Ana P ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032434569     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<1194:LPFFAN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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