An assessment of the SEEPS and SEDI metrics for the verification of 6h forecast precipitation accumulations

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 164-175

  North, Rachel ^a   Trueman, Matthew ^a   Mittermaier, Marion ^a   Rodwell, Mark J ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Precipitation verification; SEDI; SEEPS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PRECIPITATION VERIFICATION; SEDI; SEEPS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; THRESHOLD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84879025346     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1405     Document Type: Article

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