Multivariate probabilistic forecasting using ensemble Bayesian model averaging and copulas

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 673, 2013, Pages 982-991

  Möller, Annette ^a   Lenkoski, Alex ^a   Thorarinsdottir, Thordis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copula methods; Ensemble post processing; Joint predictive distributions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; COPULA METHODS; DISTRIBUTIONAL INFORMATION; ENSEMBLE POST-PROCESSING; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84879201434     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2009     Document Type: Article

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