Reliable probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts from a short-range ensemble forecasting system during the 2005/06 cool season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2157-2172

  Yussouf, Nusrat ^a,b   Stensrud, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MAPS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BINNING TECHNIQUE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MULTI MODELING; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; PROBABILITY MAPS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; RAINFALL EVENTS; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SHORT-RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTING SYSTEM; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE;

PROBABILITY;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 49749151422     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2314.1     Document Type: Article

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