Operational consensus forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-111

  Woodcock, Frank ^a   Engel, Chermelle ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIRECT MODEL OUTPUT (DMO); MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS (MOS) FORECASTS; OBJECTIVE CONSENSUS FORECASTING (OCF) SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 14744298129     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-831.1     Document Type: Article

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