Forecast Verification: A Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science
Product Details
Hardcover: 254 pages
Publisher: Wiley; illustrated edition edition (May 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471497592
ISBN-13: 978-0471497592
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Product Description
For more than 100 years, meteorologists have been making forecasts of weather and climatic events. In order to judge the quality of these forecasts and improve forecasting systems, scientists working in this field have developed and applied many different verification and evaluation techniques and scores. Forecast verification is concerned with judging how good are these systems and forecasts. This book begins with an introduction to the subject of forecast verification and a review of the basic concepts, discussing different types of data that may be forecast before moving on to the main chapters, where each chapter covers a different type of predicted quantity (predictand). This book then looks at some of the relationships between economic value and skill scores, and finally moves on to review the key concepts and summarise aspects of forecast verification that receive the most attention in other disciplines. The book concludes with a discussion on the most important topics in the field that are the subject of current research or that would benefit from future research.
Key features of this book includes:
- An easy to read guide of current techniques with real life case studies
- An up to date and practical introduction to the different techniques and an examination of their strengths and weaknesses
- Practical advice given by some of the world's leading forecasting experts
- Case studies and illustrations of actual verification and its interpretation
- Comprehensive glossary and consistent statistical and mathematical definition of commonly used terms
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