Data mining numerical model output for single-station cloud-ceiling forecast algorithms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1123-1131

  Bankert, Richard L ^a   Hadjimichael, Michael ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD-CEILING-HEIGHT FORECAST; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RAPID UPDATE CYCLE;

CLOUDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 35948955602     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1035.1     Document Type: Article

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