The method for object-based diagnostic evaluation (MODE) applied to numerical forecasts from the 2005 NSSL/SPC Spring Program

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1252-1267

  Davis, Christopher A ^a   Brown, Barbara G ^a   Bullock, Randy ^a   Halley Gotway, John ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; FALSE ALARMS; HORIZONTAL GRID; MAXIMUM VALUES; NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORIES; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; OBJECT BASED; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; RAIN; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549176549     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222241.1     Document Type: Article

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