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Communicating Properties of Changes in Lagged Weather Forecasts
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Meteorology . Know-Center GmbH, Austria.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6314-8833
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Meteorology . Uppsala University, Sweden; Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2032-5211
Number of Authors: 32022 (English)In: Weather and forecasting, ISSN 0882-8156, E-ISSN 1520-0434, Vol. 37, no 1, p. 125-142Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Weather forecasts, seasonal forecasts, and climate projections can help their users make good decisions. It has recently been shown that when the decisions include the question of whether to act now or wait for the next forecast, even better decisions can be made if information describing potential forecast changes is also available. In this article, we discuss another set of situations in which forecast change information can be useful, which arise when forecast users need to decide which of a series of lagged forecasts to use. Motivated by these potential applications of forecast change information, we then discuss a number of ways in which forecast change information can be presented, using ECMWF reforecasts and corresponding observations as illustration. We first show metrics that illustrate changes in forecast values, such as average sizes of changes, probabilities of changes of different sizes, and percentiles of the distribution of changes, and then show metrics that illustrate changes in forecast skill, such as increase in average skill and probabilities that later forecasts will be more accurate. We give four illustrative numerical examples in which these metrics determine which of a series of lagged forecasts to use. In conclusion, we suggest that providers of weather forecasts, seasonal forecasts, and climate projections might consider presenting forecast change information, in order to help forecast users make better decisions.

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2022. Vol. 37, no 1, p. 125-142
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Forecasting, Probability forecasts/models/distribution, Statistical forecasting, Decision making, Decision support, Economic value
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-205181DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-21-0086.1ISI: 000796284400007OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-205181DiVA, id: diva2:1662617
Available from: 2022-06-01 Created: 2022-06-01 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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