Application of spatial verification methods to idealized and NWP-gridded precipitation forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1485-1497

  Ahijevych, David ^a   Gilleland, Eric ^a   Brown, Barbara G ^a   Ebert, Elizabeth E ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; DISPLACEMENT ERRORS; FIELD DEFORMATIONS; GRID POINTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERCOMPARISONS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SCALE SEPARATION; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL FORECASTS; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS; TEST CASE; VERIFICATION METHOD;

DEFORMATION; ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASPECT RATIO;

ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549196271     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222298.1     Document Type: Article

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