Hydrometeorological forecast verification: the detail matters!
Contributed by Seonaid Anderson, CEH. Spending time and effort developing a novel hydrological ensemble prediction system, demonstrating its value, comparing with existing systems, justifying all that effort… there are many reasons why we verify our ensemble prediction systems. Before we dive into the number crunching, a few obvious questions need to be asked. What period to use for evaluation? This is often as long as possible, while maintaining relevance to the current application and subject to the usual computing constraints. What…