Evaluation of short-range quantitative precipitation forecasts from a time-lagged multimodel ensemble

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-38

  Yuan, Huiling ^a,b   Lu, Chungu ^b,c   McGinley, John A ^b   Schultz, Paul J ^b   Jamison, Brian D ^b   Wharton, Linda ^b   Anderson, Christopher J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIABATIC; DYNAMIC CORES; ENSEMBLE FORECAST SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; FORECAST BIAS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; LEAD TIME; LOCAL ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NORTH AMERICAN; ON TIME; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RECALIBRATION; SPATIAL DISPLACEMENT; STATISTICAL VERIFICATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS; WRF MODEL;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; POTENTIOMETRIC SENSORS; RAIN; RESEARCH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65849342188     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007053.1     Document Type: Article

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