Statistical modeling of downslope windstorms in Boulder, Colorado

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1176-1194

  Mercer, Andrew E ^a   Richman, Michael B ^a   Bluestein, Howard B ^a   Brown, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORMS; FORECAST ERRORS; HIDDEN LAYERS; KERNEL FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LR METHODS; MEDIAN RESIDUALS; NON LINEARITIES; NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL MODELS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE-ERRORS; SIGNIFICANCE TESTING; STATISTICAL MODELING; STEP-WISE REGRESSIONS; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSIONS; WIDESPREAD DAMAGES; WIND GUSTS;

ELECTRIC REACTORS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STORMS;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOULDER; COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 65549101995     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007067.1     Document Type: Article

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