A displacement-based error measure applied in a regional ensemble forecasting system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3248-3259

  Keil, Christian ^a   Craig, George C ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VECTORS;

DISPLACEMENT-BASED ERROR MEASURE; LOCAL SQUARED DIFFERENCE; PYRAMID MATCHING ALGORITHM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; CONVECTION; DISPLACEMENT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOSAT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 34848907440     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3457.1     Document Type: Article

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