Bayesian model averaging for emergency response atmospheric dispersion multimodel ensembles: Is it really better? How many data are needed? Are the weights portable?

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Potempski, S ^a,b   Galmarini, S ^a   Riccio, A ^c   Giunta, G ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISPERSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; COMBINED MODEL; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; MODEL TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649304190     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014210     Document Type: Article

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