Conditional exceedance probabilities

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 363-372

  Mason, Simon J ^a   Galpin, Jacqueline S ^b   Goddard, Lisa ^a   Graham, Nicholas E ^c   Rajartnam, Balakanapathy ^d  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRIER SCORE; CONDITIONAL EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITIES; MURPHY DECOMPOSITION; PROBABILITY HISTOGRAM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847339405     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3284.1     Document Type: Article

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