Prediction of near-surface variables at independent locations from a bias-corrected ensemble forecasting system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3415-3424

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

BIAS-CORRECTED ENSEMBLE (BCE); NEAR-SURFACE VARIABLES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845443334     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3258.1     Document Type: Article

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