Interpretation of rank histograms for verifying ensemble forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 550-560

  Hamill, T M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RANK HISTOGRAMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0035270069     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<0550:IORHFV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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