Short-range numerical weather prediction using time-lagged ensembles

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 580-595

  Lu, Chungu ^a,b   Yuan, Huiling ^a   Schwartz, Barry E ^a   Benjamin, Stanley G ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; TIME-LAGGED ENSEMBLES;

LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34447628683     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF999.1     Document Type: Article

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