Toward accurate and reliable forecasts of australian seasonal rainfall by calibrating and merging multiple coupled GCMS

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4554-4563

  Schepen, Andrew ^a   Wang, Q J ^b  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; MERGING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; FORECAST CALIBRATIONS; FORECAST PROBABILITIES; FORECAST RELIABILITY; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY;

RELIABILITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84896919429     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00253.1     Document Type: Article

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