Evaluation of MM5 and Eta-10 precipitation forecasts over the Pacific Northwest during the cool season

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-154

  Colle, Brian A ^a   Westrick, Kenneth J ^a   Mass, Clifford F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; FLOODS; PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STATISTICS; WIND;

COOL SEASON; MESOSCALE MODEL; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PRECIPITATION FORECASTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033117829     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0137:EOMAEP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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