Neighborhood verification: A strategy for rewarding close forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1498-1510

  Ebert, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID SCALE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMPROVED FORECAST; INTERCOMPARISONS; MEAN VALUES; NEIGHBORHOOD SIZE; OPTIMAL SCALE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAINFALL INTENSITY; VERIFICATION METHOD;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549158775     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222251.1     Document Type: Article

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