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DOI	10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.10.001
	A statistical method based on the ensemble probability density function for the prediction of “Wind Days”
	Tateo A.; Miglietta M.M.; Fedele F.; Menegotto M.; Pollice A.; Bellotti R.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0169-8095
起始页码	106
结束页码	116
卷号	216
英文摘要	Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models are often used to predict meteorological events in a deterministic way. In recent years, operational Ensemble Prediction Systems are able to take into account some of the errors affecting the NWP models, and allow to estimate the probability of occurrence. In the traditional approach, this probability is given by the percentage of ensemble members predicting the event. In this study, we propose an alternative method to estimate the probability of occurrence, based on the ensemble probability density function (PDF), which takes into account only random errors unavoidably affecting the model. To estimate its reliability, we compare this method with classical categorical and probabilistic approaches by using different global models: ECMWF, GFS, and GEFS. In particular, we focus on wind speed forecasts in the area around the city of Taranto, located in Apulia region (southeastern Italy), to simulate the events called “Wind Days”, i.e. northwesterly wind above 7 m/s for 3 consecutive hours. Our analysis concerns 34 case studies covering 2016, opportunely chosen to have a balanced dataset of WD and no WD, the latter category mainly including cases that are very difficult to predict, at the border of the two categories. The results show that the probabilistic approaches have a better skill than the categorical ones. Among the probabilistic approaches, the best result (accuracy of 82%) is obtained using the method proposed here, with the control run of GEFS used to estimate the true value and the gamma distribution to model the error distribution. To reduce the systematic error, we test different thresholds and numbers of consecutive hours when the definition of WD is applied to model outputs. All the models show remarkably better performances after these parameters are changed. In particular, our method shows the best performance, with an accuracy of 94%. The analysis on test (leave-one-out strategy in 2016) and validation datasets (66 cases in 2017) confirms the previous outcomes. We test our procedures considering the forecast time intervals of 49–72 and 25–48 h, where similar performances are found. In conclusion, our analysis show that the proposed method presents better performances compared to the traditional approaches for different statistical performance indicators. © 2018
英文关键词	GEFS; Heavy events prediction; Probabilistic prediction approaches; Wind day
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Probability distributions; Random errors; Weather forecasting; Wind; Ensemble prediction systems; GEFS; Numerical weather prediction models; Probabilistic approaches; Probabilistic prediction; Probability density function (pdf); Probability of occurrence; Statistical performance; Probability density function; data set; ensemble forecasting; probability density function; statistical analysis; weather forecasting; wind power; wind velocity
来源期刊	Atmospheric Research
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/162250
作者单位	Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università deli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Via G. Amendola 173, Bari, 70126, Italy; Apulia Region Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA Puglia), C.so Trieste 27, Bari, 70126, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Bari, Via Orabona 4, Bari, 70125, Italy; National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC), Lecce s.p. Lecce-Monteroni km 1.2, Lecce, 73100, Italy; Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università degli Studi di Bari, “A. Moro”, Largo Abbazia S. Scolastica (già via C. Rosalba, 53), Bari, 70124, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tateo A.,Miglietta M.M.,Fedele F.,等. A statistical method based on the ensemble probability density function for the prediction of “Wind Days”[J],2019,216.
APA	Tateo A.,Miglietta M.M.,Fedele F.,Menegotto M.,Pollice A.,&Bellotti R..(2019).A statistical method based on the ensemble probability density function for the prediction of “Wind Days”.Atmospheric Research,216.
MLA	Tateo A.,et al."A statistical method based on the ensemble probability density function for the prediction of “Wind Days”".Atmospheric Research 216(2019).