On the spatial distribution of rainfall nowcasting errors due to orographic forcing

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-74

  Foresti, Loris ^a   Seed, Alan ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Forecast verification; k means clustering; Rainfall growth and decay; STEPS; Very short term forecasting; Weather radar

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIAS CORRECTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; STEPS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; VERY SHORT TERM FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; NOWCASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADAR; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 84921624829     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1440     Document Type: Article

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