New developments of the intensity-scale technique within the spatial verification methods intercomparison project

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-143

  Casati, B ^a  

^a Consortium Ouranos ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS ERROR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFERENT SCALE; DISCRETE WAVELETS; DOMAIN CONSTRAINT; INTERCOMPARISONS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECALIBRATIONS; SCALE RELATIONSHIP; SEVERE STORMS; SKILL SCORE; SPATIAL FORECASTS; SPATIAL SCALE; VERIFICATION METHOD; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESEARCH; STORMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOOTSTRAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 74549226256     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222257.1     Document Type: Article

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