Model wind field forecast verification using multiple-doppler syntheses from a national radar network

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 331-348

  Beck, Jeffrey ^a   Nuret, Mathieu ^a   Bousquet, Olivier ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; LANDFORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODEL VERIFICATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF ERRORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN; VERIFICATION RESULTS; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

RADAR;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84898789100     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00068.1     Document Type: Article

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