Basic diagnosis and prediction of persistent contrail occurrence using high-resolution numerical weather analyses/forecasts and logistic regression. Part II: Evaluation of sample models

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1790-1802

  Duda, David P ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEMS; CONTRAIL FORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAPSE RATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OUTBREAK MODELS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RAPID UPDATE CYCLES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SECOND GROUP; SURFACE MODELS; SURFACE-BASED; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONTRAIL; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77649134412     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2057.1     Document Type: Article

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