Verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts on short time-scales: A fuzzy approach to handle timing errors with SAL

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-105

  Zimmer, Matthias ^a   Wernli, Heini ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE-BASED; FUZZY APPROACH; INTENSE PRECIPITATION; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; LOCATION ERRORS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; QUALITY MEASURES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; STOCHASTIC NATURE; STRUCTURE COMPONENT; SURFACE PRECIPITATION; TEMPORAL PREDICTION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME SHIFTS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TIMING ERRORS; VERIFICATION RESULTS; WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL;

CATCHMENTS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STANDARDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERRORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80051686145     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0224     Document Type: Article

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