Verification of the time evolution of precipitation systems in numerical weather forecasts

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4177-4183

  Baldwin, M E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast verification; Image processing; Numerical weather prediction; Quantitative precipitation forecasting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION SYSTEMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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