Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 8, Issue 5-6, Pages 579-595Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9106-3
Keywords
Bayesian model averaging; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; DiffeRential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis; Temperature forecasting; Streamflow forecasting
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Bayesian model averaging (BMA) has recently been proposed as a statistical method to calibrate forecast ensembles from numerical weather models. Successful implementation of BMA however, requires accurate estimates of the weights and variances of the individual competing models in the ensemble. In their seminal paper (Raftery et al. Mon Weather Rev 133:1155-1174, 2005) has recommended the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for BMA model training, even though global convergence of this algorithm cannot be guaranteed. In this paper, we compare the performance of the EM algorithm and the recently developed DiffeRential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis (DREAM) Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for estimating the BMA weights and variances. Simulation experiments using 48-hour ensemble data of surface temperature and multi-model streamflow forecasts show that both methods produce similar results, and that their performance is unaffected by the length of the training data set. However, MCMC simulation with DREAM is capable of efficiently handling a wide variety of BMA predictive distributions, and provides useful information about the uncertainty associated with the estimated BMA weights and variances.
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