An evaluation of mesoscale-model-based model output statistics (MOS) during the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic winter games

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-218

  Hart, Kenneth A ^a,b   Steenburgh, W James ^a   Onton, Daryl J ^a   Siffert, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; STATISTICS; WIND EFFECTS;

DEWPOINT; WIND DIRECTIONS; WINTER SEASON;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; HUMIDITY; MODELING; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 1842689669     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0200:AEOMMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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