Using MODE to explore the spatial and temporal characteristics of cloud cover forecasts from high-resolution NWP models

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-196

  Mittermaier, M P ^a   Bullock, R ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud analyses; Km scale; Method for object based diagnostic evaluation; MODE; NWP cloud forecasts

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD ANALYSIS; CLOUD FORECASTS; KM-SCALE; MODE; OBJECT BASED;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; DETECTION METHOD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84879022347     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1393     Document Type: Article

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