New verification approaches for convective weather forecasts

Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 503-515

  Brown, Barbara G ^a   Bullock, Randy R ^a   Davis, Christopher A ^a   Gotway, John Halley ^a   Chapman, Michael B ^a   Takacs, Agnes ^a   Gilleland, Eric ^a   Manning, Kevin ^a   Mahoney, Jennifer L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST GRIDS; GRID OVERLAYS; PRECIPITATION AREAS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AVIATION; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 23944439567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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