On upscaling of rain-gauge data for evaluating numerical weather forecasts

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 155-167

  Ahrens, Bodo ^a   Beck, A ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; UPSCALING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 43049103758     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-007-0261-8     Document Type: Article

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