NOAA's second-generation global medium-range ensemble reforecast dataset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1553-1565

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a   Bates, Gary T ^b   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^a   Murray, Donald R ^b   Fiorino, Michael ^a   Galarneau Jr , Thomas J ^c   Zhu, Yuejian ^d   Lapenta, William ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER RESOLUTION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPERATIONAL MODEL; RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR; SECOND GENERATION; STATISTICAL CALIBRATION; TRAINING DATA;

SOLAR ENERGY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84887565416     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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