Visualizing multiple measures of forecast quality

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 601-608

  Roebber, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION FORECASTS; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; FALSE ALARM RATIO; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEIGHT ANOMALY; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SEVERE STORMS;

STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIAGRAM; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VISUALIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 69949168416     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222159.1     Document Type: Article

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