Calibrating 2-m temperature of limited-area ensemble forecasts using high-resolution analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3373-3387

  Kann, Alexander ^a   Wittman, Christoph ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Ma, Xulin ^b  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; CONTINUOUS RANKED PROBABILITY SCORES; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DIRECT MODEL OUTPUTS; DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GAUSSIAN REGRESSION; GAUSSIANS; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; LOCAL SCALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; POSTPROCESSING METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; RESCALING; SECOND MOMENTS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING; TEMPERATURE MODELS; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING LENGTH; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; DOWNSCALING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR CORRECTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449105760     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2793.1     Document Type: Article

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