Limited-area ensemble forecasting: The COSMO-LEPS system

Predictability of Weather and Climate

Volumn 9780521848824, Issue , 2006, Pages 489-513

  Tibaldi, Stefano ^a   Paccagnella, Tiziana ^b   Marsigli, Chiara ^b   Montani, Andrea ^b   Nerozzi, Fabrizio ^b  

^a Servizio Meteorologico Regionale   (Italy)

^b ARPA SIM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEES; STATISTICAL-DYNAMICAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34547181576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511617652.019     Document Type: Chapter

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