Data · dataset · 2026
Verifying forecasts spatially
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
Numerous new methods have been proposed for using spatial information to better quantify and diagnose forecast performance when forecasts and observations are both available on the same grid.
Description
The majority of the new spatial verification methods can be classified into four broad categories (neighborhood, scale separation, features based, and field deformation), which themselves can be further generalized into two categories of filter and displacement.
Because the methods make use of spatial information in widely different ways, users may be uncertain about what types of information each provides, and which methods may be most beneficial for particular applications. As an international project, the Spatial Forecast Verification
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Methods
Inter-Comparison Project (ICP; www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/icp) was formed to address these questions. This project was coordinated by NCAR and facilitated by the WMO/World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research. An overview of the methods involved in the project is provided here with some initial guidelines about when each of the verification approaches may be most appropriate.
Future spatial verification methods may include hybrid methods that combine aspects of filter and displacement approaches.
Links
Get the data
- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7416zb2 ↗
documentation · download · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/verifying-forecasts-spatially ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=1f3f9f61-4e7f-4a37-bea6-3f3d89370… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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