Predictability of precipitation from continental radar images. Part IV: Limits to prediction

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2092-2108

  Germann, Urs ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^b,c   Turner, Barry ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c J S Marshall Weather Radar Observatory   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; STORMS;

FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; LAGRANGIAN PERSISTENCE FRAMEWORK; PREDICTABILITY; RADAR REFLECTIVITY PATTERNS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADAR IMAGERY; RAINFALL; STRATIFICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33747872331     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3735.1     Document Type: Article

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