FIDUCEO Vocabulary

This is the FIDUCEO draft vocabulary. We encourage comments on our definitions, please click on any word to comment.

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ECMWF

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts

ECV

Essential Climate Variables

ERA-CLIM2

European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations -2

Error

The unknown difference between the measured value and the (unknown) true value. The error is a specific draw from the probability distribution function described by the uncertainty.

Expanded uncertainty

Expanded uncertainty is the standard uncertainty multiplied by a coverage factor, k. The coverage factor is chosen to obtain a desired level of confidence. Most commonly a 95 % confidence interval is chosen. For a Gaussian distribution this is achieved with a coverage factor k = 2. (Note that strictly this provides a 95.45 % confidence interval).