Ensemble post-processing using member-by-member approaches: Theoretical aspects

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 688, 2015, Pages 807-818

  Van Schaeybroeck, Bert ^a   Vannitsem, Stéphane ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Member by member approach; Model output statistics; Statistical post processing

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROCESSING; RELIABILITY;

ENSEMBLE POST-PROCESSING; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; KURAMOTO-SIVASHINSKY EQUATIONS; LINEAR POST PROCESSING; MEMBER-BY-MEMBER APPROACH; MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS; RANKED PROBABILITY SKILL SCORES; STATISTICAL POST PROCESSING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84928304477     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2397     Document Type: Article

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