Is unequal weighting significantly better than equal weighting for multi-model forecasting?

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 670, 2013, Pages 176-183

  Delsole, Timothy ^a,b   Yang, Xiaosong ^c   Tippett, Michael K ^d,e  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Earth Institute   (United States)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Hindcasts; Regression; Seasonal prediction

Indexed keywords

HINDCASTS; MULTI-MODEL; MULTI-MODEL COMBINATION; REGRESSION; SEASONAL PREDICTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; HINDCASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84873321859     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1961     Document Type: Article

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