"I'm aware that these kinds of forecasts have been around for at least 200 years, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and they never came true so far.
"These kinds of forecasts have turned out to be wrong generation after generation," says Steven Bronars, a senior economist at Welch Consulting.
After reading this chapter, an engineer should be capable of understanding what kinds of forecasts are routinely provided, what each forecast includes and how to use them properly.
Daily precipitation and evaporation data of one station and river stage data of two stations are used as case studies, and six kinds of popular hybrid and pure models are used to compare both kinds of forecast performances.
The comparison with other kinds of forecast GIM's (computed from the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model and the GPS broadcast model) show that the GPS GIM's provide better accuracy and are useful for different applications such as navigation and time transfer.
SASHA FRERE-JONES: A lot of people have been asking about endurance, which is a dangerous kind of forecasting but I'll take a stab.
For years, as the accuracy of this kind of forecasting has steadily improved, NOAA's p.m. polar satellites have been a crucial factor, like the center on a basketball team.
This kind of forecasting was denoted as the global model.
A lot of large RMSE results are caused by such a kind of forecasting errors.
