Towards a quality control of precipitation data

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 733-749

  Mathes, Armin ^a   Friederichs, Petra ^a   Hense, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CROSS VALIDATION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NCEP REANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION DATA; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAIN GAUGES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SKILL SCORE; SMALL SCALE; STATISTICAL MODELS; VERTICAL VELOCITY; WEATHER SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RAIN GAGES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINGAUGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 63449107107     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0347     Document Type: Article

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