Objective bias correction for improved skill in forecasting diurnal cycles of temperature over multiple locations: The summer case

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-43

  Goswami, P ^a   Mallick, S ^a  

^a CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Bias; Diurnal effects; Mesoscale forecasting; Summer warm season; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BIAS; DIURNAL EFFECTS; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; SUMMER/WARM SEASON;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUMMER; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIA;

EID: 79953197959     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222407.1     Document Type: Article

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