Extending logistic regression to provide full-probability-distribution MOS forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-368

  Wilks, Daniel S ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasts; Generalized linear models; MOS; Reforecasts

Indexed keywords

LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MOLYBDENUM; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; REFORECASTS; STATISTICAL POST PROCESSING; THRESHOLD PROBABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70349414695     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.134     Document Type: Article

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