Short-term probabilistic forecasts of ceiling and visibility utilizing high-density surface weather observations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 891-902

  Leyton, Stephen M ^a   Fritsch, J Michael ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISIBILITY;

FORECASTING SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISIBILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0344467286     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018<0891:SPFOCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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