Calibration of probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts with an artificial neural network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1287-1303

  Yuan, Huiling ^a,b   Gao, Xiaogang ^a   Mullen, Steven L ^c   Sorooshian, Soroosh ^d   Du, Jun ^d   Juang, Hann Ming Henry ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Natl Centers Environ Prediction   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SURVEYS;

PROBABILISTIC QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; REGIONAL SPECTRAL MODEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; COLORADO BASIN; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38849171706     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2006114.1     Document Type: Article

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