The effect of probabilistic information on threshold forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 804-812

  Joslyn, Susan ^a   Pak, Karla ^a   Jones, David ^a   Pyles, John ^b   Hunt, Earl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES; WIND;

THRESHOLD FORECAST DECISION; WIND SPEED;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

PROBABILITY; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 38849148297     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1020.1     Document Type: Article

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