Precipitation forecasting using a neural network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 338-345

  Hall, Tony ^a,c   Brooks, Harold E ^b   Doswell III, Charles A ^b  

^a NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NOAA NWS Forecast Office Jackson   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY;

PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; PROBABILITY OF PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032710602     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0338:PFUANN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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