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Localizing weather project

hypersonic · 2013-09-30 08:31:18

As a hobby project I would like to write a program to compare weather predictions to actual weather to improve the accuracy by accounting for the effects of local features like mountains/sea etc. Ultimately I would like to use the R statistical package to provide a principle component analysis to identify the most…

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30-09-2013 9:31am

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As a hobby project I would like to write a program to compare weather predictions to actual weather to improve the accuracy by accounting for the effects of local features like mountains/sea etc.
Ultimately I would like to use the R statistical package to provide a principle component analysis to identify the most influence factors and something like Multivariate adaptive regression splines for prediction.

Has something like this been tried before?

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#2 30-09-2013 12:43pm
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wxsim has developed to learn from previous forecasts and actual recordings although I'm not sure what they have taken into account but might be worth talking to Tom at http://www.wxsim.com/

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