Modeling the distribution of precipitation forecasts from the Canadian ensemble prediction system using Kernel density estimation

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 575-595

  Peel, Syd ^a,b   Wilson, Laurence J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

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EID: 54749154068     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007023.1     Document Type: Article

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