A strategy for verification of weather element forecasts from an ensemble prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 956-970

  Wilson, Laurence J ^a   Burrows, William R ^a   Lanzinger, Andreas ^b,c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS (EPS); WEATHER ELEMENT FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032743105     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0956:ASFVOW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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