Analysis of scale dependence of quantitative precipitation forecast verification: A case-study over the Mackenzie river basin

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 620, 2006, Pages 2107-2125

  Bousquet, Olivier ^a,b   Lin, Charles A ^a   Zawadzki, Isztar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre de Meteorologie Radar   (France)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems; Quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF); Radar; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEMS; PHASE ERRORS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADAR; TRANSFORM; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALBERTA; AUSTRALASIA; CANADA; MACKENZIE BASIN; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 33751534266     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.154     Document Type: Article

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