In this study, a weighted ensemble method of numerical weather prediction by ensemble models is applied for PyeongChang area. The post-processing method takes into account combination and calibration of forecasts from different numerical models, assigning greater weight to ensemble models that exhibit the better performance. Three different numerical models, including European Center Medium-Range Weather Forecast, Ensemble Prediction System for Global, and Limited Area Ensemble Prediction System, were used to perform the post-processing method. We compared the model outputs from the weighed combination of ensembles with those from the Ensemble Model Output Statistics (EMOS) model for each raw ensemble model. The results showed that the weighted ensemble method can significantly improve the post-processing performance, compared to the raw ensemble method of the numerical models.

Seasonal rainfall forecasts are one of the most important part of water resources management in minimizing climate-related risk. Recently, abnormal change in precipitation raised the attention of not only scientists it gets big interest in general public too. Seasonal climate forecasts are typically based on simulations from general circulation models (GCMs) that approximate the complex physical, chemical, and biological processes. But it has been known that General Circulation Models have considerable uncertainties. Recent studies suggested that Multi-Model Ensemble(MME) could reduce this uncertainties and give an improvement on the results. There have been used several MME estimation techniques that are simply averaging models and regression based techniques. This study aims to improve MME using Bayesian Model Averaging(BMA) technique which gives weights to the models based on each model performance to present observation. The result showed that BMA technique output is statistically more fitted to the observation than the other techniques and it is very important to further analysis such as downscaling and other simulation method that uses future precipitation as a main input data.