Objective limits on forecasting skill of rare events

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 525-534

  Hitchens, Nathan M ^a,c   Brooks, Harold E ^a   Kay, Michael P ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AvMet Applications Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; FORECASTING SKILL; MINIMUM VALUE; RARE EVENT; RISK AREAS; SENSITIVITY TO PARAMETERS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84878194536     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00113.1     Document Type: Article

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