Short-range ensemble forecasts of precipitation type

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 609-626

  Wandishin, Matthew S ^a,b   Baldwin, Michael E ^c,d   Mullen, Steven L ^a   Cortinas Jr , John V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d NOAA/OAR/National Severe Stomrs Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RAIN; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECAST SOUNDINGS; ICE PELLETS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 27544445692     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF871.1     Document Type: Article

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