Probabilistic verification of global and mesoscale ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclogenesis

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1181-1198

  Majumdar, Sharanya J ^a   Torn, Ryan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; RELIABILITY; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS;

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION; PROBABILISTIC VERIFICATION; RELATIVE OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SHORT RANGE ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; EASTERLY WAVE; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84910631804     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00028.1     Document Type: Article

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