Could a perfect model ever satisfy a naïve forecaster? On grid box mean versus point verification

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-365

  Göber, Martin ^a   Zsótér, Ervin ^b   Richardson, David S ^b  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Numerical model; Precipitation verification; Representativity; Subgrid scale variability

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FORECASTING;

DAILY PRECIPITATIONS; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST GRIDS; LOCAL PREDICTION; POST PROCESSING; PRECIPITATION VERIFICATION; REPRESENTATIVITY; SUBGRID SCALE VARIABILITIES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 52949100605     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.78     Document Type: Article

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