Scoring rules for forecast verification

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-211

  Benedetti, Riccardo ^a  

^a Laboratory for Environmental Monitoring and Modelling (LaMMA)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVITY; LARGE PARTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RELATIVE ENTROPY; SCORING RULES; SECOND-ORDER APPROXIMATION; SINGLE-EVENTS; SKILL SCORE; THEORETICAL POINTS; WEATHER FORECASTS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953182338     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2945.1     Document Type: Article

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