Improvement of 6-15 day precipitation forecasts using a time-lagged ensemble method

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 293-304

  Jie, Weihua ^a,b   Wu, Tongwen ^b   Wang, Jun ^c   Li, Weijing ^b   Liu, Xiangwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

6 15 day forecasts; lagged average forecast; precipitation; time lagged ensemble system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893612925     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-013-3037-8     Document Type: Article

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