A weather-pattern-based approach to evaluate the antarctic mesoscale prediction system (AMPS) forecasts: Comparison to automatic weather station observations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-198

  Nigro, Melissa A ^a   Cassano, John J ^a   Seefeldt, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Automatic weather stations; Mesoscale forecasting; Pattern detection

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ANTARCTICA; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; EVALUATION PROCESS; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL EVALUATION; PATTERN DETECTION; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REGION OF INTEREST; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SEVERE STORMS; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY; TYPICAL MODEL; WEATHER PATTERNS; WEATHER REGIMES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ERROR STATISTICS; ERRORS; RATING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STORMS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PREDICTION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA; ROSS ICE SHELF; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 79956320924     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222444.1     Document Type: Article

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