Comparison of methodologies for probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasting

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 783-799

  Applequist, Scott ^a   Gahrs, Gregory E ^a   Pfeffer, Richard L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036693803     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<0783:COMFPQ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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