An object-oriented verification of three NWP model formulations via cluster analysis: An objective and a subjective analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3392-3407

  Marzban, Caren ^a,b   Sandgathe, Scott ^a,c   Lyons, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM VARIABLES; TIME MEASUREMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HUMAN EXPERTS; MESO-SCALE; MODEL FORMULATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER-PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODELS; OBJECT-ORIENTED VERIFICATION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; ON TIME; PROCESSING SPEEDS; SPATIAL ERRORS; SPATIAL FIELDS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL SCALING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; TIMING ERRORS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 53649108026     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2333.1     Document Type: Article

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