Comparative verification of guidance and local quantitative precipitation forecasts: Calibration analyses

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 443-454

  Krzysztofowicz, Roman ^a,b   Sigrest, Ashley A ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER; LOCAL QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

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

EID: 0032731066     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0443:CVOGAL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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