Probabilistic forecasts of precipitation in terms of quantiles using NWP model output

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 338-347

  Bremnes, John Bjørnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PROBIT REGRESSION; QUANTILE REGRESSION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1842483168     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0338:pfopit>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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