climpred.metrics._conditional_bias

climpred.metrics._conditional_bias(forecast, verif, dim=None, **metric_kwargs)[source]

Conditional bias between forecast and verification data.

\text{conditional bias} = r_{fo} - \frac{\sigma_f}{\sigma_o},

where \sigma_{f} and \sigma_{o} are the standard deviations of the forecast and verification data over the experimental period, respectively.

Parameters
  • forecast (xarray object) – Forecast.

  • verif (xarray object) – Verification data.

  • dim (str) – Dimension(s) to perform metric over.

  • metric_kwargs (dict) – see pearson_r()

:param and Datasetstd():

Details:

minimum

-∞

maximum

1.0

perfect

0.0

orientation

negative

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