Research Article

Evaluation of Precipitation Forecast of System: Numerical Tools for Hurricane Forecast

Table 4

Indices calculated to evaluate predictive skills of the system.

IndexDepends on track errorPatternMean/volumeMaximum value

Large-scale ETSYesx
Pattern correlationYesx
Mean rainfall error indexYesx
Track-relative CDF median valueNox
Track-relative CDF percentage in 95th percentileNox