The ECOMS User Data Gateway: Towards seasonal forecast data provision and research reproducibility in the era of Climate Services

Climate Services

Volumn 9, Issue , 2018, Pages 33-43

  Cofino A S ^a   Bedia, J ^a   Iturbide, M ^a   Vega, M ^a   Herrera, S ^a   Fernandez J ^a   Frias M D ^a   Manzanas, R ^a   Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bias adjustment; Downscaling; Open science; R software; Reproducibility; Seasonal forecasting; THREDDS; Validation

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85025433061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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