On the use of the intensity-scale verification technique to assess operational precipitation forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 145-154

  Csima, Gabriella ^a   Ghelli, Anna ^b  

^a HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary error image; Intensity scale; Quantitative precipitation; Verification; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; ERRORS; VERIFICATION; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

DIFFERENT RESOLUTIONS; ERROR IMAGE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTENSITY SCALE; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

FRANCE;

EID: 42549162741     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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