Evaluation of the 29-km Eta Model. Part I: Objective verification at three selected stations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-17

  Nutter, Paul A ^a,b   Manobianco, John ^a  

^a ENSCO INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

MODELING; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033079607     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0005:EOTKEM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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