Deterministic and fuzzy verification methods for a hierarchy of numerical models

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 191-203

  Amodei, Marielle ^a   Stein, Joël ^a  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

High resolution model; QPF; Verification

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN GAGES; VERIFICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCUMULATED RAINFALL; BRIER SKILL SCORES; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; PROTOTYPE VERSIONS; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION METHOD;

RAIN;

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENCE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE;

EID: 67650912283     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.101     Document Type: Article

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