A new intensity-scale approach for the verification of spatial precipitation forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-154

  Casati, B ^a   Ross, G ^b   Stephenson, D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SILICON ALLOYS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DISCRETE HAAR WAVELET; DISPLACEMENT ERRORS; INTENSITY SCALE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PRECIPITATION RATES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECIFIC INTENSITY;

ERRORS;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; NOWCASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 3342925156     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482704001239     Document Type: Article

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