Forecast Verification: A Practioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science,
2nd Edition provides an indispensible guide to this area of active
research by combining depth of information with a range of topics
to appeal both to professional practitioners and researchers and
postgraduates. The editors have succeeded in presenting chapters by
a variety of the leading experts in the field while still retaining
a cohesive and highly accessible style. The book balances
explanations of concepts with clear and useful discussion of the
main application areas.
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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