Forecast Verification for Extreme Events

Documentation for package ‘extremeIndex’ version 0.0.3

choosethres	Function for heuristically choosing the domain where extreme value theory can be applied
crps	Observations of 6-h rainfall amount with CRPS values of 3 calibrated ensemble forecasts for one lead time across France.
index.plot	Function which plots the index for differents forecasts sharing the same observations
indexclim	Function which computes the index for the climatological CRPS/MAE. You must provide the observations. If you computes climatological CRPS/MAE previously, you can add the corresponding vector
indexfore	Function for computing the index for a forecast system vs. climatological forecast. You must provide an indexclim object.