Best member selection for convective-scale ensembles

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-164

  Weusthoff, Tanja ^a   Leuenberger, Daniel ^a   Keil, Christian ^b   Craig, George C ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; LEAD TIME; MEMBER SELECTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; WEATHER REGIMES;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RADAR;

EID: 80051695836     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0211     Document Type: Article

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