Role of the metric in forecast error growth: how chaotic is the weather?

D. Orrell

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v54i4.12159

Role of the metric in forecast error growth: how chaotic is the weather?

Tellus

Volume 54 (2002): Issue 4

By: D. Orrell

Open Access

|Jan 2002

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