Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts

Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts

1st Edition - May 17, 2018

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  • Editors: Stéphane Vannitsem, Daniel Wilks, Jakob Messner
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128123720
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128122488

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Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts brings together chapters contributed by international subject-matter experts describing the current state of the art in the statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts. The book illustrates the use of these methods in several important applications including weather, hydrological and climate forecasts, and renewable energy forecasting. After an introductory section on ensemble forecasts and prediction systems, the second section of the book is devoted to exposition of the methods available for statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts: univariate and multivariate ensemble postprocessing are first reviewed by Wilks (Chapters 3), then Schefzik and Möller (Chapter 4), and the more specialized perspective necessary for postprocessing forecasts for extremes is presented by Friederichs, Wahl, and Buschow (Chapter 5). The second section concludes with a discussion of forecast verification methods devised specifically for evaluation of ensemble forecasts (Chapter 6 by Thorarinsdottir and Schuhen). The third section of this book is devoted to applications of ensemble postprocessing. Practical aspects of ensemble postprocessing are first detailed in Chapter 7 (Hamill), including an extended and illustrative case study. Chapters 8 (Hemri), 9 (Pinson and Messner), and 10 (Van Schaeybroeck and Vannitsem) discuss ensemble postprocessing specifically for hydrological applications, postprocessing in support of renewable energy applications, and postprocessing of long-range forecasts from months to decades. Finally, Chapter 11 (Messner) provides a guide to the ensemble-postprocessing software available in the R programming language, which should greatly help readers implement many of the ideas presented in this book. Edited by three experts with strong and complementary expertise in statistical postprocessing of ensemble forecasts, this book assesses the new and rapidly developing field of ensemble forecast postprocessing as an extension of the use of statistical corrections to traditional deterministic forecasts. Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts is an essential resource for researchers, operational practitioners, and students in weather, seasonal, and climate forecasting, as well as users of such forecasts in fields involving renewable energy, conventional energy, hydrology, environmental engineering, and agriculture.

Key Features

  • Consolidates, for the first time, the methodologies and applications of ensemble forecasts in one succinct place
  • Provides real-world examples of methods used to formulate forecasts
  • Presents the tools needed to make the best use of multiple model forecasts in a timely and efficient manner

Readership

Researchers and operational practitioners in weather, seasonal, and climate forecasting; users of such forecasts in such fields of application as renewable energy, conventional energy, hydrology, environmental engineering, and agriculture; and students in these and related fields

Table of Contents

  • 1 Uncertain Forecasts From Deterministic Dynamics
    Daniel S. Wilks, Stéphane Vannitsem
    2 Ensemble Forecasting and the Need for Calibration
    Roberto Buizza
    3 Univariate Ensemble Postprocessing
    Daniel S. Wilks
    4 Ensemble Postprocessing Methods Incorporating Dependence Structures
    Roman Schefzik, Annette Möller
    5 Postprocessing for Extreme Events
    Petra Friederichs, Sabrina Wahl, Sebastian Buschow
    6 Verification: Assessment of Calibration and Accuracy
    Thordis L. Thorarinsdottir, Nina Schuhen
    7 Practical Aspects of Statistical Postprocessing
    Thomas M. Hamill
    8 Applications of Postprocessing for Hydrological Forecasts
    Stephan Hemri
    9 Application of Postprocessing for Renewable Energy
    Pierre Pinson, Jakob W. Messner
    10 Postprocessing of Long-Range Forecasts
    Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Stéphane Vannitsem
    11 Ensemble Postprocessing With R
    Jakob W. Messner

Product details

  • No. of pages: 362
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
  • Published: May 17, 2018
  • Imprint: Elsevier
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128123720
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128122488

About the Editors

Stéphane Vannitsem

Stéphane Vannitsem is a member of the Research Division of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium since 1994, and has been co-editor of three special issues, two in nonlinear processes in Geophysics, and one in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. His fields of expertise include dynamical chaos, predictability and data assimilation, and statistical postprocessing.

Affiliations and Expertise

Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels

Daniel Wilks

Daniel S. Wilks has been a member of the Atmospheric Sciences faculty at Cornell University since 1987, and is the author of Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences (2011, Academic Press), which is in its third edition and has been continuously in print since 1995. Research areas include statistical forecasting, forecast postprocessing, and forecast evaluation.

Affiliations and Expertise

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, USA

Jakob Messner

Jakob W. Messner is a post-doctoral fellow at the Electrical Engineering department of the Technical University of Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Innsbruck and his main research interests include statistical forecasting for weather and energy applications, ensemble postprocessing, and implementation of statistical methods in open-source software.

Affiliations and Expertise

Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Austria

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