An assessment of Bayesian bias estimator for numerical weather prediction

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1013-1022

  Son, J ^a   Hou, D ^b   Toth, Z ^b  

^a National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 59649123865     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-1013-2008     Document Type: Article

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