Nowcasting of precipitation - Advective statistical forecast model (SAM) for the Czech Republic

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-79

  Sokol, Zbynek ^a   Pesice, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Extrapolation forecast; Precipitation forecast; Quantitative precipitation forecast; Regression; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ERROR; ACCURATE PREDICTION; CZECH REPUBLIC; FORECAST ACCURACY; FORECAST MODEL; GRID CELLS; HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RADAR DATA; RADAR ECHOES; RAIN RATES; REGRESSION; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SKILL SCORE; STATISTICAL MODELS;

LIGHTNING; METADATA; RADAR; STATISTICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; LIGHTNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 82755197884     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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