The community leveraged unified ensemble (CLUE) in the 2016 NOAA/hazardous weather testbed spring forecasting experiment

Adam J. Clark; Israel L. Jirak; Scott R. Dembek; Gerry J. Creagager; Fanyou Kong; Kevin W. Thomas; Kent H. Knopfmeier; Burkely T. Gallo; Christopher J. Melicick; Ming Xue; Keith A. Brewster; Youngsun Jung; Aaron Kennedy; Xiquan Dong; Joshua Markel; Matthew Gilmore; Glen S. Romine; Kathryn R. Fossell; Ryan A. Sobash; Jacacob R. Carley; Brad S. Ferrier; Matthew Pyle; Curtis R. Alexaxander; Steven J. Weiss; John S. Kaiain; Louis J. Wicicker; Gregory Thompson; Rebeccaccacca D. Adams-Selin; David A. Imy

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0309.1

The community leveraged unified ensemble (CLUE) in the 2016 NOAA/hazardous weather testbed spring forecasting experiment

Adam J. Clark, Israel L. Jirak, Scott R. Dembek, Gerry J. Creagager, Fanyou Kong, Kevin W. Thomas, Kent H. Knopfmeier, Burkely T. Gallo, Christopher J. Melicick, Ming Xue, Keith A. Brewster, Youngsun Jung, Aaron Kennedy, Xiquan Dong, Joshua Markel, Matthew Gilmore, Glen S. Romine, Kathryn R. Fossell, Ryan A. Sobash, Jacacob R. CarleyBrad S. Ferrier, Matthew Pyle, Curtis R. Alexaxander, Steven J. Weiss, John S. Kaiain, Louis J. Wicicker, Gregory Thompson, Rebeccaccacca D. Adams-Selin, David A. Imy

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1433-1448
Number of pages	16
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	99
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0309.1
State	Published - Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Clark, A. J., Jirak, I. L., Dembek, S. R., Creagager, G. J., Kong, F., Thomas, K. W., Knopfmeier, K. H., Gallo, B. T., Melicick, C. J., Xue, M., Brewster, K. A., Jung, Y., Kennedy, A., Dong, X., Markel, J., Gilmore, M., Romine, G. S., Fossell, K. R., Sobash, R. A., ... Imy, D. A. (2018). The community leveraged unified ensemble (CLUE) in the 2016 NOAA/hazardous weather testbed spring forecasting experiment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(7), 1433-1448. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0309.1

Clark, AJ, Jirak, IL, Dembek, SR, Creagager, GJ, Kong, F, Thomas, KW, Knopfmeier, KH, Gallo, BT, Melicick, CJ, Xue, M, Brewster, KA, Jung, Y, Kennedy, A, Dong, X, Markel, J, Gilmore, M, Romine, GS, Fossell, KR, Sobash, RA, Carley, JR, Ferrier, BS, Pyle, M, Alexaxander, CR, Weiss, SJ, Kaiain, JS, Wicicker, LJ, Thompson, G, Adams-Selin, RD & Imy, DA 2018, 'The community leveraged unified ensemble (CLUE) in the 2016 NOAA/hazardous weather testbed spring forecasting experiment', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 99, no. 7, pp. 1433-1448. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0309.1

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