How sensitive are probabilistic precipitation forecasts to the choice of calibration algorithms and the ensemble generation method? Part II: Sensitivity to ensemble generation method

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 314-324

  Ruiz, Juan J ^a,b   Saulo, Celeste ^a,b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble forecasting; Ensemble generation; Probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENSEMBLE GENERATION; INITIAL CONDITION ENSEMBLES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84864768347     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.262     Document Type: Article

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