On the visualization, verification and recalibration of ternary probabilistic forecasts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1962, 2012, Pages 1100-1120

  Jupp, Tim E ^a   Lowe, Rachel ^b   Coelho, Caio A S ^c   Stephenson, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate; Colour; Map

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COLOR; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

CLIMATE; COLOUR PALETTE; COLOUR SCHEMES; GEOMETRICAL INTERPRETATION; GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; RECALIBRATIONS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE DISTANCES; SCORING RULES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; SOUTH AMERICA; SQUARE ROOTS; STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84857256902     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0350     Document Type: Article

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