PROBCAST: A web-based portal to mesoscale probabilistic forecasts

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1009-1014

  Mass, Clifford F ^a   Joslyn, Susan ^a   Pyle, John ^a   Tewson, Patrick ^a   Gneiting, Tilmann ^a   Raftery, Adrian ^a   Baars, Jeff ^a   Sloughter, J M ^a   Jones, David ^a   Fraley, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; DESIGN APPROACHES; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; HUMAN INTERFACES; KEY ELEMENTS; MESOSCALE; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; WEATHER PREDICTION; WEB-BASED PORTAL;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 68949207162     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2775.1     Document Type: Article

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