Calibrated probabilistic mesoscale weather field forecasting: The geostatistical output perturbation method

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 467, 2004, Pages 575-583

  Gel, Yulia ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^b   Gneiting, Tilmann ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical calibration; Ensemble forecast; Geostatistical simulation; Probabilistic weather prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944237404     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000872     Document Type: Review

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