The representativeness problem of a station net applied to the verification of a precipitation forecast based on areas

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-184

  Ballester, Joan ^a   Moré, Jordi ^b  

^a Barcelona Science Park   (Spain)

^b Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya C Berlin   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contingency table; Deterministic categorical score; Precipitation forecast verification; Probability of detection (POD); Representativeness problem; Spatial distribution; Station net quality

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONTINGENCY TABLE; DETERMINISTIC CATEGORICAL SCORE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; REPRESENTATIVENESS PROBLEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DATA QUALITY; FORECASTING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 34447100741     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.20     Document Type: Article

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