Three spatial verification techniques: Cluster analysis, variogram, and optical flow

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1457-1471

  Marzban, Caren ^a   Sandgathe, Scott ^a,b   Lyons, Hilary ^a   Lederer, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; DATA SETS; DISTORTION ERRORS; FALSE ALARMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED VERIFICATION; VARIOGRAMS; VERIFICATION METHOD; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERRORS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

FORECASTING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549154418     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222261.1     Document Type: Article

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