Optical flow for verification

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1479-1494

  Marzban, Caren ^a   Sandgathe, Scott ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Forecast verification; Forecasting; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

COARSE-RESOLUTION MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; DIGITAL IMAGE; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; FLUID FLOWING; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST VERIFICATION; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; LUCAS-KANADE; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SIMULATED DATA; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL FIELDS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; THREE COMPONENT; TWO-COMPONENT; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOWS; SEA LEVEL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149298712     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222351.1     Document Type: Article

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