Bias-corrected short-range ensemble forecasts of near-surface variables during the 2005/06 cool season

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1274-1286

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a   Stensrud, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIND;

BIAS-CORRECTED ENSEMBLE (BCE); MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS (MOS); POSTPROCESSING METHOD;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 38849084629     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007002.1     Document Type: Article

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