Comparing NWS PoP forecasts to third-party providers

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3304-3321

  Bickel, J Eric ^a   Floehr, Eric ^b   Kim, Seong Dae ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Intellovations   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast verification; Forecasting; Probability forecasts models distributions; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; LEADTIME; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; PROBABILITY FORECASTS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTIONS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 81355141501     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3525.1     Document Type: Article

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