Formulation and evaluation of a scale decomposition-based stochastic precipitation nowcast scheme

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6624-6641

  Seed, Alan W ^a   Pierce, Clive E ^b   Norman, Katie ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nowcast; rainfall; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGIES; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; NOWCAST; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL VERIFICATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ERRORS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

DECOMPOSITION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NOWCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885494974     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20536     Document Type: Article

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