Extending the limits of ensemble forecast verification with the minimum spanning tree

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1522-1528

  Smith, Leonard A ^a   Hansen, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HISTOGRAMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HISTOGRAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 3142655938     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1522:ETLOEF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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