MOS, perfect prog, and reanalysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 657-663

  Marzban, Caren ^a,b   Sandgathe, Scott ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERROR VARIANCE; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; PERFECT PROG;

METEOROLOGY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33645289676     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3088.1     Document Type: Article

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