Skill and relative economic value of the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 563, 2000, Pages 649-667

  Richardson, D S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Probability forecasts

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0034052601     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712656313     Document Type: Article

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