Evaluation of cold-season precipitation forecasts generated by the hourly updating high-resolution rapid refresh model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 921-939

  Ikeda, Kyoko ^a   Steiner, Matthias ^a   Pinto, James ^a   Alexander, Curtis ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; FALSE ALARMS; FREEZING RAIN; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIXED PHASE; MODEL PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

FREEZING; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883858937     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00085.1     Document Type: Article

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