Postprocessing of ensemble precipitation predictions with extended logistic regression based on hindcasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 874-888

  Roulin, Emmanuel ^a   Vannitsem, Stéphane ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecast verification; Hindcasts

Indexed keywords

AREAL PRECIPITATION; BELGIUM; CONTINUOUS RANKED PROBABILITY SCORES; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST PROBABILITIES; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; HINDCASTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MEAN ERRORS; MOVING WINDOW; PARAMETER SET; RAIN GAUGE DATA; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; SMALL CATCHMENT; TRAINING PHASE;

CALIBRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LOGISTICS;

CALIBRATION; DATABASE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857969929     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00062.1     Document Type: Article

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