weather: Pressure and temperature forecast errors over the Pacific Northwest
Description
Meteorological dataset, which consists of difference between forecasts
and observations (forcasts minus observations) of temperature and
pressure at 157 locations in the North American Pacific Northwest.
Format
The data frame weather contains the following columns:
- pressure
- in units of Pascal
- temperature
- in units of degree Celcius
- lon
- longitudinal coordinates of the locations
- lat
- latitude coordinates of the locations
Furthermore, some results obtained from the data analysis in
jss14 are delivered that are
pars.model, pars, whole.model, whole. Finally, the variable information contains packing information
(the date and the version of RandomFields)Source
The data were obtained from Cliff Mass and Jeff Baars in the University
of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences.Details
The forecasts are from the GFS member of the University of Washington
regional numerical weather prediction ensemble (UWME; Grimit and Mass
2002; Eckel and Mass 2005); they were valid on December 18, 2003 at 4 pm
local time, at a forecast horizon of 48 hours.
References
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Eckel, A. F. and Mass, C. F. (2005) Aspects of effective mesoscale,
short-range ensemble forecasting Wea. Forecasting 20,
328-350.
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Gneiting, T., Kleiber, W. and Schlather, M. (2010) Matern
cross-covariance functions for multivariate random fields
J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 105, 1167-1177.
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Grimit, E. P. and Mass, C. F. (2002) Initial results of a
mesoscale short-range forecasting system over the Pacific
Northwest Wea. Forecasting 17, 192-205.
See Also
A reanalysis has been performed in Section 5 of the
jss14 paper