A new view of seasonal forecast skill: bounding boxes from the DEMETER ensemble forecasts
By: Antje Weisheimer, Leonard A. Smith and Kevin Judd
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v57i3.14660 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 265 - 279
Submitted on: Mar 31, 2004
Accepted on: Mar 31, 2004
Published on: Jan 1, 2005
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2005 Antje Weisheimer, Leonard A. Smith, Kevin Judd, published by Stockholm University Press
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