Warm season lightning probability prediction for Canada and the northern United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 971-988

  Burrows, William R ^a   Price, Colin ^b   Wilson, Laurence J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ERROR REDUCTION; TREE STRUCTURED REGRESSION; WARM SEASON LIGHTNING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING METHOD; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 32044466229     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF895.1     Document Type: Article

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