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标题：Hourly probabilistic snow forecasts over complex terrain: a hybrid ensemble postprocessing approach
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作者：Reto Stauffer ; Georg J. Mayr ; Jakob W. Messner 等
期刊名称：Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
印刷版ISSN：2364-3579
电子版ISSN：2364-3587
出版年度：2018
卷号：4
期号：1/2
页码：65-86
DOI：10.5194/ascmo-4-65-2018
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：Abstract. Accurate and high-resolution snowfall and fresh snow forecasts are important for a range of economic sectors as well as for the safety of people and infrastructure, especially in mountainous regions. In this article a new hybrid statistical postprocessing method is proposed, which combines standardized anomaly model output statistics (SAMOS) with ensemble copula coupling (ECC) and a novel re-weighting scheme to produce spatially and temporally high-resolution probabilistic snow forecasts. Ensemble forecasts and hindcasts of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) serve as input for the statistical postprocessing method, while measurements from two different networks provide the required observations.This new approach is applied to a region with very complex topography in the eastern European Alps. The results demonstrate that the new hybrid method allows one not only to provide reliable high-resolution forecasts, but also to combine different data sources with different temporal resolutions to create hourly probabilistic and physically consistent predictions.