Real-time forecasting of snowfall using a neural network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 676-684

  Roebber, Paul J ^a   Butt, Melissa R ^a   Reinke, Sarah J ^a   Grafenauer, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN MEDIAN; REAL TIME FORECASTING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR;

NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SNOW; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; TABLE LOOKUP; VERIFICATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; REAL TIME; SNOW;

EID: 34447625075     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1000.1     Document Type: Article

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