On the MSC forecasters forums and the future role of the human forecaster

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 619-627

  Sills, David M L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF CANADA; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBJECT DATABASE; OBJECT ORIENTED; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SHARED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SHORT TERM; WEATHER EVENTS; WEATHER FORECASTS; WEATHER PREDICTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 68949198878     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2657.1     Document Type: Article

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