Quantitative precipitation forecasts over the United States by the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 638-663

  Mullen, S L ^a   Buizza, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN GAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEM (EPS);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINGAUGE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

(EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035302469     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<0638:QPFOTU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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