hindcast
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- noun
- /ˈhaɪndˌkæst/
- Specialized
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retropronóstico
- So if we wish to test the GCM model hindcasts, we should test them against the real data.
- hindcast model
Examples
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To measure the accuracy of our forecast equation, we generate a hindcast at season's end, using the actual fishing effort for the season and then compare the hindcast to actual landings.
Academic text (1991) -
To measure the accuracy of our forecast equation, we generate a hindcast at season's end, using the actual fishing effort for the season and then compare the hindcast to actual landings.
Academic text (1991) -
However, a hindcast is not a prediction and never will be.
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Anyone who suggests a model hindcast shows skill should get out of the computer modeling business.
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"We had never witnessed anything like it, according to the old hindcast model," Stear said.
Academic text (2007) -
"Statistically, it was not out of the realm of possibility, but we decided to go back and look at our hindcast data."
Academic text (2007) -
With 100 years of storm data from shore stations, met-ocean researchers drove hindcast models that simulated the behavior of hurricanes at sea.
Academic text (2007) -
Introducing a new model between the data and the model hindcasts just muddies the water and provides falsely high correlations.
Blog text (25) -
"By the early 1990s, the industry felt it had a good hindcast model for setting standards," said Stear, who also chairs an American Petroleum Institute workgroup that is reassessing Gulf met-ocean conditions.
Academic text (2007) -
The researchers used the hindcast to analyze the ocean conditions from ten years ago.
Synonyms
A prediction for a past period made with a current computer model to test it
An analysis that uses current models to estimate past events
Using current data and models to estimate past events
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hindcast comes from hind 'back' and cast as in forecast. It is a model run back in time, so a hindcast is a calculation that recreates past weather or ocean conditions.