Improving short-term (0-48 h) cool-season quantitative precipitation forecasting: Recommendations from a USWRP Workshop

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1619-1632

  Ralph, F Martin ^a   Rauber, Robert M ^b   Jewett, Brian F ^b   Kingsmill, David E ^c   Pisano, Paul ^d   Pugner, Paul ^e   Rasmussen, Roy M ^f   Reynolds, David W ^g   Schlatter, Thomas W ^a   Stewart, Ronald E ^h   Tracton, Steve ⁱ   Waldstreicher, Jeff S ^j  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^e US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g National Weather Service   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^j Eastern Region Headquarters   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; SNOW; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COOL SEASON PRECIPITATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

EID: 23144431753     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-11-1619     Document Type: Article

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