Intercomparison of global research and operational forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 534-551

  Roman, Jennifer C ^a   Miguez Macho, Gonzalo ^b   Byerle, Lee A ^a   Paegle, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FORECAST SENSITIVITY; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 3142661884     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0534:IOGRAO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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