These are statistics that I've run at Baseball Prospectus for many years, but BP has decided to discontinue them – or at least transform into something I no longer recognize.
[3] In a later post, he characterized the reason for his departure from BP:I'm Clay Davenport, one of the founders of Baseball Prospectus.
I still have a (looser than before) affiliation with BP, so don't expect to see me using this site to dish dirt or run anybody into the ground.
He has likened some of that work to his baseball analysis: "The biggest similarity between handling the two types of statistics is that they each involve making forecasts that are there for everyone to see, and you end up being wrong a lot," Davenport said.
"[9] In 2000, Davenport developed the Hydro-Estimator, a set of computer programs to estimate precipitation in real time.
"The Hydro-Estimator (H-E) version of the Auto-Estimator (AE) was developed by Clay Davenport, a contractor working for the ORA Hydrology Team under the direction of Dr. Rod Scofield.
There is less of a tendency for overestimating for very cold cloud tops using the H-E, and it does a much better job of estimating for large mesoscale convective complexes (MCC's).
"[10]Because of these programs, according to Davenport, "we are now capable of producing rainfall estimates for every system visible from satellite, which allows it to be used for other purposes in the United States and around the world, for example, drought monitoring in Africa, forest fire protection in Brazil and landslide studies in Venezuela.