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Predicting Failures of Point Forecasts

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2011-12-08 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

The predictability of errors in deterministic temperature forecasts is investigated. More precisely, the aim is to issue warnings whenever the differences between forecast and verification exceed a given threshold. The warnings are generated by analyzing the output of an ensemble forecast system in terms of a decision making approach. The quality of the resulting predictions is evaluated by computing receiver operating characteristics, the Brier score, and the Ignorance score. Special emphasis is also given to the question whether rare events are better predictable.

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@article{arxiv.1112.1674,
  title  = {Predicting Failures of Point Forecasts},
  author = {S. Hallerberg and J. Bröcker and H. Kantz and L. A. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.1674},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

19 pages, 13 figures

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