Verification with variograms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1102-1120

  Marzban, Caren ^a   Sandgathe, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; LOCATION ERRORS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA; VARIOGRAMS; VERIFICATION RESULTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; REFLECTION; RESEARCH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74249102677     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222122.1     Document Type: Article

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