Can a Multimodel SuperEnsemble technique be used for precipitation forecasts?

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 25, Issue , 2010, Pages 17-22

  Cane, D ^a   Milelli, M ^a  

^a ARPA PIEMONTE   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

EID: 77949352894     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-25-17-2010     Document Type: Article

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