Improving week-2 forecasts with multimodel reforecast ensembles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2279-2284

  Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^a   Wei, Xue ^a   Vitart, Frédéric ^b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS (MOS); MULTIMODEL REFORECAST DATASET;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33747798041     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3175.1     Document Type: Article

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