Comment on 'Can multi-model combination really enhance the prediction skill of probabilistic ensemble forecasts?'

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 639, 2009, Pages 535-539

  Weigel, Andreas P ^a   Bowler, N E ^b  

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

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensemble dispersion; Overconfidence; Probabilistic verification; Reliability; Toy model

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE DISPERSION; GAUSSIAN; MULTI-MODEL COMBINATION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; OVERCONFIDENCE; PROBABILISTIC ENSEMBLE; PROBABILISTIC VERIFICATION; SEASONAL FORECASTING; TOY MODEL; TOY MODELS; WELL-DISPERSED;

FORECASTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MODELING; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649443942     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.381     Document Type: Article

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