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Statistical postprocessing techniques are nowadays key components of the forecasting suites in many National Meteorological Services (NMS), with for most of them, the objective of correcting the impact of different types of errors on the forecasts. The final aim is to provide optimal, automated, seamless forecasts for end users. Many techniques are now flourishing in the statistical, meteorological, climatological, hydrological, and engineering communities. The methods range in complexity from simple bias corrections to very sophisticated distribution-adjusting techniques that incorporate correlations among the prognostic variables. The paper is an attempt to summarize the main activities going on this area from theoretical developments to operational applications, with a focus on the current challenges and potential avenues in the field. Among these challenges is the shift in NMS towards running ensemble Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) systems at the kilometer scale that produce very large datasets and require high-density high-quality observations; the necessity to preserve space time correlation of high-dimensional corrected fields; the need to reduce the impact of model changes affecting the parameters of the corrections; the necessity for techniques to merge different types of forecasts and ensembles with different behaviors; and finally the ability to transfer research on statistical postprocessing to operations. Potential new avenues will also be discussed.
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