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Information gain as a score for probabilistic forecasts

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Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
220 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1350-4827

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A measure of the information added by a probabilistic forecast to that contained in the climatological distribution is presented in this paper. This measure, called information gain, is mathematically closely related to the traditional ignorance score, but is more intuitive. Its advantages over other scores for probabilistic forecasts are also shown. The information gain score is tested on ECMWF ensemble forecasts of 500 hPa geopotential and 850 hPa temperature. The trends observed are in good agreement with those seen in other verification measures applied to the same data. In particular, the information gain decays with increasing lead time and increases over the years, in agreement with the improvement of the model. Copyright Β© 2010 Royal Meteorological Society

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