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- Title
An Empirical Cumulative Density Function Approach to Defining Summary NWP Forecast Assessment Metrics.
- Authors
HOFFMAN, ROSS N.; BOUKABARA, SID-AHMED; KUMAR, V. KRISHNA; GARRETT, KEVIN; CASEY, SEAN P. F.; ATLAS, ROBERT
- Abstract
The empirical cumulative density function (ECDF) approach can be used to combinemultiple, diverse assessment metrics into summary assessment metrics (SAMs) to analyze the results of impact experiments and preoperational implementation testing with numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. The main advantages of the ECDF approach are that it is amenable to statistical significance testing and produces results that are easy to interpret because the SAMs for various subsets tend to vary smoothly and in a consistent manner. In addition, the ECDF approach can be applied in various contexts thanks to the flexibility allowed in the definition of the reference sample. The interpretations of the examples presented here of the impact of potential future data gaps are consistent with previously reported conclusions. An interesting finding is that the impact of observations decreases with increasing forecast time. This is interpreted as being caused by the masking effect of NWP model errors increasing to become the dominant source of forecast error.
- Subjects
NUMERICAL weather forecasting; DENSITY functionals; DATA analysis; WEATHER forecasting; SCIENTIFIC errors
- Publication
Monthly Weather Review, 2017, Vol 145, Issue 4, p1427
- ISSN
0027-0644
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/MWR-D-16-0271.1