The use of ensembles to identify forecasts with small and large uncertainty

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 463-477

  Toth, Z ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Marchok, T ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

FORECAST IDENTIFICATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

EID: 0035414948     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016<0463:TUOETI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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