
arXiv: 1601.01420
Predictive skill of complex models is often not uniform in model-state space; in weather forecasting models, for example, the skill of the model can be greater in populated regions of interest than in "remote" regions of the globe. Given a collection of models, a multi-model forecast system using the cross pollination in time approach can be generalised to take advantage of instances where some models produce systematically more accurate forecast of some components of the model-state. This generalisation is stated and then successfully demonstrated in a moderate ~40 dimensional nonlinear dynamical system suggested by Lorenz. In this demonstration four imperfect models, each with similar global forecast skill, are used. Future applications in weather forecasting and in economic forecasting are discussed. The demonstration establishes that cross pollinating forecast trajectories to enrich the collection of simulations upon which the forecast is built can yield a new forecast system with significantly more skills than the original multi-model forecast system.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, FOS: Physical sciences, multi-model ensemble, structural model error, Statistics - Applications, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Applications (stat.AP), data assimilation, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an), cross-pollination
FOS: Computer and information sciences, 330, FOS: Physical sciences, multi-model ensemble, structural model error, Statistics - Applications, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph), Applications (stat.AP), data assimilation, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an), cross-pollination
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