Ensemble Cloud Model Applications to Forecasting Thunderstorms or The Ensemble Heresies

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Verification Confidence Limits

• Model soundings often verified with RMS error values
  • But… Is the RMS value statistically significant?
• Instead, use confidence intervals
  • Use t statistic to create 95% confidence interval for the difference between two sample means
    

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