A new equitable score suitable for verifying precipitation in numerical weather prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1344-1363

  Rodwell, Mark J ^a   Richardson, David S ^a   Hewson, Tim D ^a   Haiden, Thomas ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equitability; Hedging; Probability space; Refinement; Sampling uncertainty

Indexed keywords

'DRY' [; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CONVECTIVE CELL; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; EQUITABILITY; EXTRATROPICAL; FORECAST SYSTEMS; FORECASTING ERROR; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GRID-BOX; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; HEDGING; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; LEAD TIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PROBABILITY SPACE; PROBABILITY SPACES; REFINEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956199713     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.656     Document Type: Article

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