Table 1: Average confidence and information gain for forecasts and trend extrapolation.

Temperature     Precipitation     CPC Trend Comb CPC Trend Comb 1995–2012              Conf 0.0144 0.0227 0.0463 0.0068 0.0072 0.0150  ISS 0.0236 0.0215 0.0332 0.0031 0.0071 0.0090 2003–2012              Conf 0.0164 0.0326 0.0627 0.0060 0.0094 0.0170  ISS 0.0241 0.0402 0.0461 0.0047 0.0130 0.0159