The regime dependence of optimally weighted ensemble model consensus forecasts of surface temperature

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1146-1161

  Greybush, Steven J ^a   Haupt, Sue Ellen ^a   Young, George S ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; CROSS VALIDATIONS; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE MODELS; FLOW REGIMES; K-MEANS; MESO-SCALE; MESOSCALE FIELDS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; MULTIANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICANS; OPTIMAL WEIGHTS; PACIFIC NORTHWESTS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; PERSISTENCE ASSUMPTIONS; PILOT STUDIES; POST-PROCESSING SCHEMES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RE-ANALYSIS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE PREDICTIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; WEATHER REGIMES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65549129447     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007078.1     Document Type: Article

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