A new view of seasonal forecast skill: Bounding boxes from the DEMETER ensemble forecasts

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-279

  Weisheimer, Antje ^a,b   Smith, Leonard A ^b,c   Judd, Kevin ^b,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; SEASONALITY;

EID: 18544376241     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2005.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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