Rank Histograms of Stratified Monte Carlo Ensembles

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1558-1571

  Siegert, Stefan ^a   Bröcker, Jochen ^a,b   Kantz, Holger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Forecast verification skill; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTIONS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; ENSEMBLES; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; MONTE CARLO ENSEMBLE; RANDOM SAMPLING; RANK HISTOGRAMS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WEATHER PREDICTION;

FORECASTING; GRAPHIC METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HISTOGRAM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864957847     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00302.1     Document Type: Article

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