The use of sounding-derived indices for a neural network short-term thunderstorm forecast

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 896-917

  Manzato, Agostino ^a  

^a Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente del Friuli Venezia Giulia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THUNDERSTORMS;

CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; THUNDERSTORM FORECAST; THUNDERSTORM INTENSITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FORECASTING METHOD; THUNDERSTORM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 32044452666     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF898.1     Document Type: Article

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