Verification of surface temperature forecasts from the National Digital Forecast Database over the western United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 869-892

  Myrick, David T ^a   Horel, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECAST ACCURACY; SUBGRID-SCALE TEMPERATURE VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750499308     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF946.1     Document Type: Article

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