SpecsVerification0.5-3 package

Forecast Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate

TestRankhist

Statistical tests for rank histograms

AbsErr

Calculate the absolute error between forecast and observation

Auc

Calculate area under the ROC curve (AUC) for a forecast and its verify...

auc_cpp

Calculate AUC and its sampling standard deviation (Internal C++ implem...

AucDiff

Calculate difference between areas under the ROC curve (AUC) between a...

aucdiff_cpp

Calculate AUC difference AUC(fcst,obs) - AUC(fcst_ref, obs) of two f...

BrierDecomp

Brier Score decomposition

ClimEns

Construct a climatological ensemble from a vector of observations.

Corr

Calculate correlation between forecasts and observations, and assess u...

CorrDiff

Calculate correlation difference between a forecast and a reference fo...

Detrend

Auxiliary function for removing trends and mean from observation vecto...

DressCrps

Calculate the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) for a mixture...

dresscrps_cpp

Dress CRPS

DressCrpsDiff

Calculate DressCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff ins...

DressCrpss

Calculate DressCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore i...

DressEnsemble

Transform an ensemble forecast to a continuous forecast distribution b...

DressIgn

Calculate the Logarithmic (Ignorance) Score for a mixture of Normal di...

DressIgnDiff

Calculate DressIgn Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff inst...

EnsBrier

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Brier Score

EnsBrierDiff

Calculate EnsBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff inst...

EnsBrierSs

Calculate EnsBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore in...

EnsCorr

Correlation skill analysis for ensemble forecasts

EnsCrps

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Continuous Ranked Probability Score (C...

enscrps_cpp

CRPS for ensemble forecasts (C++ implementation)

EnsCrpsDiff

Calculate EnsCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff inste...

EnsCrpss

Calculate EnsCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore ins...

EnsQs

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Quadratic Score (QS) for categorical f...

EnsRps

Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Ranked Probability Score (RPS) for cat...

EnsRpsDiff

Calculate EnsRps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instea...

EnsRpss

Calculate EnsRps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore inst...

FairBrierDiff

Calculate FairBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff ins...

FairBrierSs

Calculate FairBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore i...

FairCrpsDiff

Calculate FairCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff inst...

FairCrpss

Calculate FairCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore in...

FairRpsDiff

Calculate FairRps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff inste...

FairRpss

Calculate FairRps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore ins...

FitAkdParameters

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

GaussCrps

Calculate the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) for forecasts...

GaussCrpsDiff

Calculate GaussCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff ins...

GaussCrpss

Calculate GaussCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore i...

GenerateToyData

Generate artificial data for ensemble verification using a signal-plus...

GetDensity

Calculate density and integrated density function of a dressed ensembl...

PlotDressedEns

Plot a series forecast distributions of dressed ensembles

PlotRankhist

Plotting function for rank histograms

Rankhist

Rank histogram for ensemble forecasts

ReliabilityDiagram

Reliability diagram for probability forecasts

ScoreDiff

Calculate average score difference and assess uncertainty

SkillScore

Calculate a skill score and assess uncertainty.

SpecsVerification

SpecsVerification - Forecast verification routines

SqErr

Calculate the squared error between forecast and observation

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

  • Maintainer: Stefan Siegert
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2020-02-26