The use of a cloud resolving model in the development and evaluation of a probabilistic forecasting algorithm for convective gusts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-251

  Gray, M E B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE WEATHER; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; UNITED KINGDOM;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; FORECASTING METHOD; GUST; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0347535139     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482703003049     Document Type: Article

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