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Advances in Meteorology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 649450, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/649450
Research Article
A Neural Network Nonlinear Multimodel Ensemble to Improve Precipitation Forecasts over Continental US
1National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA, College Park, MD 20740, USA
2Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Received 26 May 2012; Accepted 31 July 2012
Academic Editor: Hann-Ming Henry Juang
Copyright © 2012 Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky and Ying Lin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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