Early warning products for severe weather events derived from operational medium-range ensemble forecasts

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 213-222

  Matsueda, Mio ^a,b   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

TIGGE; Multicentre grand ensemble; Operational medium range ensemble forecast; Probabilistic forecast; Severe weather events; THORPEX

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DAMAGE DETECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HURRICANES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; MULTICENTRE GRAND ENSEMBLE; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; THORPEX; TIGGE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DEVELOPING WORLD; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAINFALL; SEVERE WEATHER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928583448     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.1444     Document Type: Article

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