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This chapter illustrates how verification is conducted with operational meteorological ensemble forecasts. It focuses on the main aspects of importance to hydrological applications, such as verification of point and spatial precipitation forecasts, verification of temperature forecasts, verification of extreme meteorological events, and feature-based verification.

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    Florian Pappenberger & David Richardson

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Gilleland, E., Pappenberger, F., Brown, B., Ebert, E., Richardson, D. (2019). Verification of Meteorological Forecasts for Hydrological Applications. In: Duan, Q., Pappenberger, F., Wood, A., Cloke, H., Schaake, J. (eds) Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39925-1_4

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