Smoothing forecast ensembles with fitted probability distributions

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 586 PART B, 2002, Pages 2821-2836

  Wilks, D S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixture distributions; Probability forecasts; Spread skill relationship; Wind chill

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLOUDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0036821009     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.215     Document Type: Article

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