A laboratory study of the benefits of including uncertainty information in weather forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 116-122

  Roulston, Mark S ^a,b   Bolton, Gary E ^c   Kleit, Andrew N ^a   Sears Collins, Addison L ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; RISKS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECAST STANDARD ERRORS; FORECAST-SPECIFIC ESTIMATES; LABORATORY-BASED METHOD; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RISK REDUCTION; STATE-DEPENDENT PREDICTABILITY; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

FORECASTING METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645638664     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF887.1     Document Type: Article

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