Tubing: An alternative to clustering for the classification of ensemble forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 741-757

  Atger, Frédéric ^a,b  

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

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0033208526     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0741:TAATCF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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