Due to the chaotic nature of the atmosphere, weather forecasts, even with ever improving numerical weather prediction models, eventually lose all skill. Meteorologists have a strong desire to better ...

Last month's forecast was off by 10%—is this a "bad forecast"?Can we say it's a bad forecast just because it was "off by 10%" ...

Finance teams are paying more attention to forecast error as volatile demand, interest costs and working-capital swings make the quality of forecasts more important to decision-making.

Root mean square error (rms, or its square, the variance distance) is often used to measure differences between simulated and observed fields. In this case ...