Diagnosing the sensitivity of binary image measures to bias, location, and event frequency within a forecast verification framework

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1032-1044

  Schwedler, Benjamin R J ^a   Baldwin, Michael E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Data processing; Forecast verification; Sensitivity studies

Indexed keywords

BASE RATE; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DISPLACEMENT ERRORS; DISTANCE MEASURE; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; IMAGE MEASURE; IMAGE METRICS; PARTIAL HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; THREE PARAMETERS; VERIFICATION FRAMEWORK;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857271000     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00032.1     Document Type: Article

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