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Forecast Verification - A Practioner's Guide inAtmospheric Science 2e
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9780470660713
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Dec 9 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.67
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.60 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Reviews of first edition:
This book will provide a good reference, and I recommend it especially for developers and evaluators of statistical forecast systems. (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; April 2004)
...a good mixture of theory and practical applications...well organized and clearly written... (Royal Statistical Society, Vol.168, No.1, January 2005)
NEW to the second edition:
- Completely updated chapter on the Verification of Spatial Forecasts taking account of the wealth of new research in the area
- New separate chapters on Probability Forecasts and Ensemble Forecasts
- Includes new chapter on Forecasts of Extreme Events and Warnings
- Includes new chapter on Seasonal and Climate Forecasts
- Includes new Appendix on Verification Software
Cover image credit: The triangle of barplots shows a novel use of colour for visualizing probability forecasts of ternary categories - see Fig 6b of Jupp et al. 2011, On the visualisation, verification and recalibration of ternary probabilistic forecasts, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (in press).
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