The MELBS team winning entry for the EVA2017 competition for spatiotemporal prediction of extreme rainfall using generalized extreme value quantiles

Abstract

We present our winning entry for the EVA2017 challenge on spatiotemporal prediction of extreme precipitation. The aim of the competition is to predict extreme rainfall quantiles that score as low as possible on the competition error metric. Good or bad predictions are defined only by the metric used. Our methodology was simple and produced accurate predictions under this metric. This outcome emphasizes the importance of cross-validation and identifying model over-fitting.