Probabilistic forecasts of (severe) thunderstorms for the purpose of issuing a weather alarm in the Netherlands

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1253-1267

  Schmeits, Maurice J ^a   Kok, Kees J ^a   Vogelezang, Daan H P ^a   Van Westrhenen, Rudolf M ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LIGHTNING INTENSITIES; LIMITED-AREA MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION EQUATIONS; NETHERLANDS; NEW MODELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODELS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SKILL SCORES; THUNDERSTORM FORECASTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; LIGHTNING; THUNDERSTORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEVERE WEATHER; THUNDERSTORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 65549122817     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007102.1     Document Type: Article

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