Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social
and economic domains. Traditional numerical weather prediction uses increased compute …

An ever-increasing number of rainfall estimates is available. They are used in many
important applications such as flood/drought monitoring, water management, or climate …

A key aim of climate monitoring is to place the current conditions of climate variables, such
as surface air temperature and precipitation, in their historical context. In Europe, a leading …

Probabilistic weather forecasting is critical for decision-making in high-impact domains such
as flood forecasting, energy system planning or transportation routing, where quantifying the …

We undertook a comprehensive evaluation of 22 gridded (quasi-) global (sub-) daily
precipitation (P) datasets for the period 2000–2016. Thirteen non-gauge-corrected P …

Verification scientists and practitioners came together at the 5th I nternational V erification M
ethods W orkshop in M elbourne, A ustralia, in D ecember 2011 to discuss methods for …

To promote the advancement of novel observation techniques that may lead to new sources
of information to help better understand the hydrological cycle, the International Association …

Atmospheric moisture transport is the primary component of the atmospheric branch of the
water cycle, and its anomalies strongly influence drought and precipitation extremes. We …

Equatorial waves (EWs) are synoptic‐to planetary‐scale propagating disturbances at low
latitudes with periods from a few days to several weeks. Here, this term includes Kelvin …

Accumulated precipitation forecasts are of high socioeconomic importance for agriculturally
dominated societies in northern tropical Africa. In this study, the performance of nine …