Validation of environment canada and NOAA UV index forecasts with brewer measurements from Canada

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1477-1489

  He, Huixia ^a   Fioletov, Vitali E ^a   Tarasick, David W ^a   Mathews, Thomas W ^a   Long, Craig ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FALSE-ALARM RATES; FORECASTING SYSTEM; IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; METEOROLOGY;

FORECASTING;

CLOUD COVER; MODELING; NOAA SATELLITE; PROBABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880348784     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0286.1     Document Type: Article

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