Skill of a superensemble forecast over equatorial southeast Asia

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1963-1972

  Mahmud, Mastura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Motion field analysis; Multimodel multianalysis; Precipitation bias; Precipitation forecast; Root mean square error; Southeast Asia; Superensemble

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATASETS; MASS FIELDS; MULTIANALYSIS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE-ERRORS (RMSE);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 11844254821     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1099     Document Type: Article

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