Generalization of the discrete brier and ranked probability skills scores for weighted multimodel ensemble forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2778-2785

  Weigel, Andreas P ^a   Liniger, Mark A ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BRIER SKILL SCORE; MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLE FORECAST; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 34547678065     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3428.1     Document Type: Article

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