Confidence builders: Evaluating seasonal climate forecasts from user perspectives

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 683-698

  Hartmann, Holly C ^a   Pagano, Thomas C ^a   Sorooshian, S ^a   Bales, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FLOOD CONTROL; RAIN; SNOW; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION DIAGRAMS; FLOODING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036577580     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2002)083<0683:CBESCF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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