Can an ensemble give anything more than Gaussian probabilities?

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 469-475

  Denholm Price, J C W ^a,b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0346305081     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-10-469-2003     Document Type: Article

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