The future of humans in an increasingly automated forecast process

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1497-1502

  Stuart, Neil A ^a   Market, Patrick A ^b   Telfeyan, Bruce ^c   Lackmann, Gary M ^d   Carey, Kenneth ^e   Brooks, Harold E ^f   Nietfeld, Daniel ^g   Motta, Brian C ^h   Reeves, Ken ⁱ  

^a National Weather Service Eastern Region Headquarters   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Offutt AFB   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NOBLIS   (United States)

^f NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NOAA National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Omaha Valley   (United States)

^h NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ AccuWeather Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

AUTOMATED FORECAST; COMPUTER-GENERATED FORECAST; FORECAST ACCURACY; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33845364693     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-11-1497     Document Type: Article

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