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SpecsVerification (version 0.5-0)

Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate

Description

A collection of new forecast verification routines developed for the SPECS FP7 project. The emphasis is on comparative verification of ensemble forecasts.

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install.packages('SpecsVerification')

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0.5-0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Stefan Siegert

Last Published

January 21st, 2017

Functions in SpecsVerification (0.5-0)

aucdiff_cpp

Calculate AUC difference `AUC(fcst,obs) - AUC(fcst_ref, obs)` of two forecasts for the same observations, and the sampling standard deviation of the AUC difference (Internal C++ implementation)
enscrps_cpp

CRPS for ensemble forecasts (C++ implementation)
EnsBrier

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Brier Score
DressIgn

Calculate the Logarithmic (Ignorance) Score for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing
DressCrpss

Calculate DressCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
DressCrpsDiff

Calculate DressCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
EnsBrierSs

Calculate EnsBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
dresscrps_cpp

Dress CRPS
DressCrps

Calculate the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing
EnsBrierDiff

Calculate EnsBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
DressIgnDiff

Calculate DressIgn Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
EnsCrps

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS)
EnsCrpss

Calculate EnsCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
EnsQs

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Quadratic Score (QS) for categorical forecasts
EnsCrpsDiff

Calculate EnsCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
EnsRpss

Calculate EnsRps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
eurotempforecast

Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
FairRpss

Calculate FairRps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
FairRpsDiff

Calculate FairRps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
GenerateToyData

Generate artificial data for ensemble verification using a signal-plus-noise model
TestRankhist

Statistical tests for rank histograms
GetDensity

Calculate density and integrated density function of a dressed ensemble forecast at a matrix of values
FairCrpsDiff

Calculate FairCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
FairCrpss

Calculate FairCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
ScoreDiff

Calculate average score difference and assess uncertainty
FairBrierSs

Calculate FairBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
SkillScore

Calculate a skill score and assess uncertainty
FairBrierDiff

Calculate FairBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
FitAkdParameters

Fit the 5 parameters used for affine kernel dressing by minimum CRPS estimation.
GaussCrps

Calculate the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) for forecasts issued as Normal distributions
SpecsVerification

SpecsVerification - Forecast verification routines
SqErr

Calculate the squared error between forecast and observation
EnsRps

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Ranked Probability Score (RPS) for categorical forecasts
GaussCrpsDiff

Calculate GaussCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
GaussCrpss

Calculate GaussCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
EnsRpsDiff

Calculate EnsRps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
Rankhist

Rank histogram for ensemble forecasts
PlotDressedEns

Plot a series forecast distributions of dressed ensembles
ReliabilityDiagram

Reliability diagram for probability forecasts
PlotRankhist

Plotting function for rank histograms
CorrDiff

Calculate correlation difference between a forecast and a reference forecast, and assess uncertainty
BrierDecomp

Brier Score decomposition
Corr

Calculate correlation between forecasts and observations, and assess uncertainty
AucDiff

Calculate difference between areas under the ROC curve (AUC) between a forecast and a reference forecast for the same observation, and estimate the variance of the AUC difference
AbsErr

Calculate the absolute error between forecast and observation
Detrend

Auxiliary function for removing trends and mean from observation vector or ensemble matrix.
auc_cpp

Calculate AUC and its sampling standard deviation (Internal C++ implementation)
ClimEns

Construct a climatological ensemble from a vector of observations.
Auc

Calculate area under the ROC curve (AUC) for a forecast and its verifying binary observation, and estimate the variance of the AUC