Verification of a multimodel storm surge ensemble around New York City and long Island for the cool season

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 922-939

  Di Liberto, Tom ^a,c   Colle, Brian A ^a   Georgas, Nickitas ^b   Blumberg, Alan F ^b   Taylor, Arthur A ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecast verification; Mesoscale models; Model comparison; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Ocean models; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLES; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL COMPARISON; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OCEAN MODEL; REGIONAL MODEL;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; FLOODS;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEASONALITY; STORM SURGE; WAVE BREAKING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LONG ISLAND [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857291457     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05055.1     Document Type: Article

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