Meaning of nowcast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To predict the weather for a very short upcoming period (usually a few hours).
2. To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.

Examples

“If the nowcasted or forecasted rainfall depth is greater than the FFG, then flooding in the basin is considered likely.”

“The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail⟳ validation checks.”

“First, the value-added contribution from each origin country is adjusted according to their (nowcasted) change⟳ in GDP.”

“Our ability to nowcast will depend⟳ on the length of the delay⟳ and the quality of data available.”

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