Short-range ensemble forecasts of precipitation during the Southwest monsoon

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1080-1100

  Bright, David R ^a   Mullen, Steven L ^b  

^a National Weather Service Forecast Office   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036821633     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017<1080:SREFOP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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