Quantifying the impact of adding gap filling radar data on forecaster wind assessments, warnings, and confidence

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-370

  Rude, Don J ^a   Bass, Ellen J ^a   Philips, Brenda ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence; Forecaster judgement; Human automation interaction; Severe weather; Warning decision; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PUBLIC POLICY;

CONFIDENCE; FORECASTER JUDGEMENT; HUMAN-AUTOMATION INTERACTIONS; SEVERE WEATHER; WARNING DECISION;

WIND;

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORECASTING METHOD; POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR; THUNDERSTORM; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84865738245     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.269     Document Type: Article

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