Performance of operational model precipitation forecast guidance during the 2013 Colorado Front-Range floods

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2609-2618

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RAIN;

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RESEARCH WORK; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOULDER COUNTY; COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905707190     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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