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Verifying high-resolution weather forecasts has become increasingly complicated,
and simple, easy-to-understand summary measures are a good alternative. Recent work has demonstrated some common pitfalls with many such summaries. Here, new summary measures are introduced that do not suffer from these drawbacks, while still providing meaningful information.
Verifying high-resolution weather forecasts has become increasingly complicated,
and simple,...
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Adv. Stat. Clim. Meteorol. Oceanogr., 7, 13–34, 2021
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Adv. Stat. Clim. Meteorol. Oceanogr., 7, 13–34, 2021
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16 Feb 2021
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Verifying high-resolution weather forecasts has become increasingly complicated,
and simple, easy-to-understand summary measures are a good alternative. Recent work has demonstrated some common pitfalls with many such summaries. Here, new summary measures are introduced that do not suffer from these drawbacks, while still providing meaningful information.
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