Hail in Northeast Italy: A neural network ensemble forecast using sounding-derived indices

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-28

  Manzato, Agostino ^a  

^a Osservatorio Meteorologico Regionale dell'ARPA FVG (OSMER)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAGGING ALGORITHMS; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMBINING BINARY CLASSIFIERS; LINEAR MULTIREGRESSION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES; NONLINEAR APPROACH; VOTING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HAIL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO];

EID: 84874876345     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00034.1     Document Type: Article

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