An adaptive nonlinear MOS scheme for precipitation forecasts using neural networks

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-310

  Yuval, ^a   Hsieh, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COASTAL ZONES; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NONADAPTIVE SCHEMES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0037983896     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0303:AANMSF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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