Quantile-based short-range QPF evaluation over Switzerland

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 827-848

  Jenkner, Johannes ^a   Frei, Christoph ^b   Schwierz, Cornelia ^c  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENCY TABLE; COSMO MODEL; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; FIXED AMPLITUDE; GRID POINTS; GRID SIZE; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE PHASE; MODEL UPDATES; PRECIPITATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RAINFALL FORECASTS; RAINFALL INTENSITY; SKILL SCORE; SWISS FEDERAL OFFICE; SWITZERLAND; TIME PERIODS;

CLIMATOLOGY; GAGES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING BIAS; THRESHOLD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 63449133890     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0344     Document Type: Article

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