Model uncertainty in the ecosystem approach to fisheries

SL Hill, GM Watters, AE Punt, MK McAllister… - Fish and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Fisheries scientists habitually consider uncertainty in parameter values, but often neglect
uncertainty about model structure, an issue of increasing importance as ecosystem models …

Evolution of ECMWF sub‐seasonal forecast skill scores

F Vitart - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sub‐seasonal forecasts have been routinely produced at ECMWF since 2002 with
reforecasts produced 'on the fly'to calibrate the real‐time sub‐seasonal forecasts. In this …

Probabilistic estimates of drought impacts on agricultural production

S Madadgar, A AghaKouchak… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in the severity and frequency of drought in a warming climate may negatively
impact agricultural production and food security. Unlike previous studies that have estimated …

Can multi‐model combination really enhance the prediction skill of probabilistic ensemble forecasts?

AP Weigel, MA Liniger… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The success of multi‐model ensemble combination has been demonstrated in many studies.
Given that a multi‐model contains information from all participating models, including the …

Estimation of the continuous ranked probability score with limited information and applications to ensemble weather forecasts

M Zamo, P Naveau - Mathematical Geosciences, 2018 - Springer
The continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) is a much used measure of performance
for probabilistic forecasts of a scalar observation. It is a quadratic measure of the difference …

A first look at Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) for hydrological seasonal prediction

X Yuan, EF Wood, L Luo, M Pan - Geophysical research letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) has transitioned to
operationally use the second generation of their coupled ocean‐atmosphere‐land model …

[HTML][HTML] The discrete Brier and ranked probability skill scores

AP Weigel, MA Liniger… - Monthly Weather …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Brier skill score (BSS) and the ranked probability skill score (RPSS) are widely used
measures to describe the quality of categorical probabilistic forecasts. They quantify the …

Subseasonal precipitation prediction for Africa: Forecast evaluation and sources of predictability

FM de Andrade, MP Young, D MacLeod… - Weather and …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper evaluates subseasonal precipitation forecasts for Africa using hindcasts from
three models (ECMWF, UKMO, and NCEP) participating in the Subseasonal to Seasonal …

Ensemble size: How suboptimal is less than infinity?

M Leutbecher - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ensemble forecasts are the method of choice in numerical weather prediction (NWP) to
generate probabilistic forecasts. The number of members in an ensemble is an important …

How far in advance can we predict changes in large‐scale flow leading to severe cold conditions over Europe?

L Ferranti, L Magnusson, F Vitart… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The potential of early warning for severe cold conditions is explored using the Subseasonal
to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction research project data archive. We explore the use of a two …