Reliable probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts from a short-range ensemble forecasting system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-17

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

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

PROBABILISTIC QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTS (PQPFS); RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTING SYSTEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33947269252     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF968.1     Document Type: Article

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