The generalized discrimination score for ensemble forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3069-3074

  Weigel, Andreas P ^a   Mason, Simon J ^b  

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

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecast verification

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS;

FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80053211724     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05069.1     Document Type: Article

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