Population and income sensitivity of private and public weather forecasting

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-133

  Anbarci, Nejat ^a   Boyd, John ^b   Floehr, Eric ^c   Lee, Jungmin ^d   Song, Joon Jin ^e  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Intellovations   (United States)

^d Sogang University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast accuracy; Private provider; Public provider; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPETITIVENESS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79651474135     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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