2009 Verification Workshop

The purposes of this meeting were to demonstrate the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) to the community and discuss new forecast evaluation methods that should be included in future releases.

Presentations

Wednesday, August 26th

• Overview of Joint Numerical Testbed, MET, and Verification Advisory Group Barbara Brown
• Cloud Verification a review of methodologies and recent developments Anna Ghelli
• Validation of Cloud Top Height Using A-Train Observations Cory Wolff
• Sky Cover Forecast Verification in the National Weather Service Chuck Kluepful
• Verification of Ensemble Forecasts: A look to the future Laurie Wilson
• Probability and ensemble forecasts: how do we evaluate their skills? Anna Ghelli
• Ensemble Based Probabilistic Forecast Verification Yuejian Zhu
• MET show and tell MET Development Team

Thursday, August 27th

• Characterizing Timing Errors in Hydrologic Forecasts to Support Diagnostic and Real-Time Verification Yuqiong Liu
• Application of Spatial Verification Methods to Ensembles Bill Gallus
• Neighborhood Verification of Ensembles Craig Schwartz
• Cloud Model Verification at the Air Force Weather Agency Matt Sittel
• Verification of Eastern Pacific Cloud Forecasts Jason Nachamkin
• An evaluation of various WRF-ARW microphysics using simulated GOES imagery for an atmospheric river event affecting the California coast Isidora Jankov
• The Dust Transport Application at the Air Force Weather Agency: Products and Verification Gordon Brooks

Friday, August 28th

• Lessons Learned from the CSU Cloudy Data Assimilation Research Andrew Jones
• Use of COSMIC GPS RO Data for Verification of Moisture Analysis and Prediction of an Atmospheric River Event Bill Kuo
• Could Data Assimilation Be Useful for Cloud Verification? Zhiquan Liu
• On the Use of Synthetic Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Numerically Simulated Clouds Louie Grasso