Downscaling of ECMWF ensemble forecasts for cases of severe weather: Ensemble statistics and cluster analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3323-3342

  Brankovic Cedo ^a   Matjačić, Blaženka ^a   Ivatek Šahdan, Stjepan ^a   Buizza, Roberto ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

CROATIA; DOWN-SCALING; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SEVERE WEATHER;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 53649102234     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2322.1     Document Type: Article

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