Deterministic ensemble forecasts using gene-expression programming

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1431-1451

  Bakhshaii, Atoossa ^a   Stull, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; FORECAST DATES; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; MULTI-GRID; MULTI-MODEL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONLINEAR COMBINATION; NWP MODEL; RAINY SEASONS; SPARSE SAMPLING; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION; WEATHER STATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 74549124223     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222192.1     Document Type: Article

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