Gridded ensemble precipitation and temperature estimates for the contiguous United States

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2481-2500

  Newman, Andrew J ^a   Clark, Martyn P ^a   Craig, Jason ^a   Nijssen, Bart ^b   Wood, Andrew ^a   Gutmann, Ethan ^a   Mizukami, Naoki ^a   Brekke, Levi ^c   Arnold, Jeff R ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

^d US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Ensembles; Hydrology; Hydrometeorology; Interpolation schemes; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Precipitation; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84950158959     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0026.1     Document Type: Article

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