Forecast error growth: A dynamic-stochastic model

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Main Authors: Bach, Eviatar, Crisan, Dan, Ghil, Michael
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Published: 2024
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author Bach, Eviatar
Crisan, Dan
Ghil, Michael
author_facet Bach, Eviatar
Crisan, Dan
Ghil, Michael
contents There is a history of simple forecast error growth models designed to capture the key properties of error growth in operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. We propose here such a scalar model that relies on the previous ones and incorporates multiplicative noise in a nonlinear stochastic differential equation (SDE). We analyze the properties of this SDE, including the shape of the error growth curve for small times and its stationary distribution, and prove well-posedness and positivity of solutions. Next, we fit this model to operational NWP error growth curves, and show good agreement with both the mean and probabilistic features of the error growth. These results suggest that the dynamic-stochastic error growth model proposed herein and similar ones could play a role in many other areas of the sciences that involve prediction.
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spellingShingle Forecast error growth: A dynamic-stochastic model
Bach, Eviatar
Crisan, Dan
Ghil, Michael
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
There is a history of simple forecast error growth models designed to capture the key properties of error growth in operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. We propose here such a scalar model that relies on the previous ones and incorporates multiplicative noise in a nonlinear stochastic differential equation (SDE). We analyze the properties of this SDE, including the shape of the error growth curve for small times and its stationary distribution, and prove well-posedness and positivity of solutions. Next, we fit this model to operational NWP error growth curves, and show good agreement with both the mean and probabilistic features of the error growth. These results suggest that the dynamic-stochastic error growth model proposed herein and similar ones could play a role in many other areas of the sciences that involve prediction.
title Forecast error growth: A dynamic-stochastic model
topic Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06623