Analysis of a statistically initialized fuzzy logic scheme for classifying the severity of convective storms in Finland

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 656-674

  Rossi, Pekka J ^a   Hasu, Vesa ^b   Koistinen, Jarmo ^a   Moisseev, Dmitri ^c   Mäkelä, Antti ^a   Saltikoff, Elena ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Convective storm severity; Fuzzy logic; Storm statistics; Storm tracking

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; FUZZY LOGIC; INFERENCE ENGINES; LIGHTNING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OBJECT TRACKING; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CONVECTIVE STORMS; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC MODEL; INFERENCE RULES; LIGHTNING LOCATION DATUM; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRACKING ALGORITHM;

RADAR TRACKING;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; RADAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM; TRACKING;

FINLAND;

EID: 84904756277     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1389     Document Type: Article

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