Verification of cloud-fraction forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 643, 2009, Pages 1494-1511

  Hogan, Robin J ^a   O'Connor, Ewan J ^a   Illingworth, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud radar; Cloudnet; Skill scores

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD RADAR; CLOUDNET; FORECAST MODEL; FRACTION DISTRIBUTION; GROUND BASED; LEADTIME; NON-GAUSSIAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; ODDS RATIOS; SKILL SCORE; SKILL SCORES; TYPICAL VALUES; WEATHER SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70349589800     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.481     Document Type: Article

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