Point and areal validation of forecast precipitation fields

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-20

  Yates, Eddy ^a   Anquetin, Sandrine ^a   Ducrocq, Véronique ^b   Creutin, Jean Dominique ^a   Ricard, Didier ^b   Chancibault, Katia ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Mesoscale quantitative precipitation forecast; Multiscale validation

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENCY TABLE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCALISATION; MULTISCALE VALIDATION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAINFALL FIELDS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA QUALITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33748181596     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482705001921     Document Type: Article

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