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National Hurricane Center Forecast Verification (Text)


Updated 26 August 2009

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Forecast verification procedures
  3. Annual NHC verification reports
  4. Official five-year mean errors and distributions
  5. Official error trends
  6. Model error trends
  7. NHC official forecast error database
  8. Performance measures and goals
  9. References

7. NHC official forecast error database

The links below contain tabulations of individual NHC official track and intensity forecast errors, and a description of the file format. These verifications include subtropical systems and are homogeneous with the current best track CLIPER5 and Decay-SHIFOR5 models.

Next: Performance measures and goals


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