R: Forecast Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate

# Forecast Verification Routines for Ensemble Forecasts of Weather and Climate

## Documentation for package ‘SpecsVerification’ version 0.5-3

- DESCRIPTION file.

## Help Pages

AbsErr | Calculate the absolute error between forecast and observation
Auc | Calculate area under the ROC curve (AUC) for a forecast and its verifying binary observation, and estimate the variance of the AUC
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
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)
auc_cpp | Calculate AUC and its sampling standard deviation (Internal C++ implementation)
BrierDecomp | Brier Score decomposition
BrierScoreDecomposition | Brier Score decomposition
ClimEns | Construct a climatological ensemble from a vector of observations.
Corr | Calculate correlation between forecasts and observations, and assess uncertainty
CorrDiff | Calculate correlation difference between a forecast and a reference forecast, and assess uncertainty
Detrend | Auxiliary function for removing trends and mean from observation vector or ensemble matrix.
DressCrps | Calculate the Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS) for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing
DressCrpsDiff | Calculate DressCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
DressCrpss | Calculate DressCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
dresscrps_cpp | Dress CRPS
DressEnsemble | Transform an ensemble forecast to a continuous forecast distribution by kernel dressing.
DressIgn | Calculate the Logarithmic (Ignorance) Score for a mixture of Normal distributions, for example generated by ensemble dressing
DressIgnDiff | Calculate DressIgn Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
ens | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
ens.bin | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
ens.cat | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
EnsBrier | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Brier Score
EnsBrierDiff | Calculate EnsBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
EnsBrierSs | Calculate EnsBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
EnsCorr | Correlation skill analysis for ensemble forecasts
EnsCrps | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS)
EnsCrpsDiff | Calculate EnsCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
EnsCrpss | Calculate EnsCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
enscrps_cpp | CRPS for ensemble forecasts (C++ implementation)
EnsQs | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Quadratic Score (QS) for categorical forecasts
EnsRps | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Ranked Probability Score (RPS) for categorical forecasts
EnsRpsDiff | Calculate EnsRps 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
FairBrier | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Brier Score
FairBrierDiff | Calculate FairBrier Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
FairBrierSs | Calculate FairBrier Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
FairCrps | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Continuous Ranked Probability Score (CRPS)
FairCrpsDiff | Calculate FairCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
FairCrpss | Calculate FairCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
FairQs | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Quadratic Score (QS) for categorical forecasts
FairRps | Calculate the ensemble-adjusted Ranked Probability Score (RPS) for categorical forecasts
FairRpsDiff | Calculate FairRps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
FairRpss | Calculate FairRps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore 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
GaussCrpsDiff | Calculate GaussCrps Difference (deprecated, use function ScoreDiff instead)
GaussCrpss | Calculate GaussCrps Skill Score (deprecated, use function SkillScore instead)
GenerateToyData | Generate artificial data for ensemble verification using a signal-plus-noise model
GetDensity | Calculate density and integrated density function of a dressed ensemble forecast at a matrix of values
obs | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
obs.bin | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
obs.cat | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
obs.lag | Seasonal ensemble forecast of European average summer temperature
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
TestRankhist | Statistical tests for rank histograms