Ensemble tropical rainfall potential (eTRaP) forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-224

  Ebert, Elizabeth E ^a   Turk, Michael ^b   Kusselson, Sheldon J ^b   Yang, Jianbin ^b   Seybold, Matthew ^b   Keehn, Peter R ^b   Kuligowski, Robert J ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecasting techniques; Microwave observations; Rainfall; Satellite observations; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; RAINFALL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

HURRICANES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SATELLITES; STORMS; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 79956313898     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222443.1     Document Type: Article

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