2021 DTC UFS Evaluation Metrics Workshop | Pre-workshop Survey 1

The goal of the workshop was to identify and prioritize key metrics to use for evaluating the Unified Forecast System (UFS) research products and establish their readiness to move from one research stage to another prior to becoming an operational candidate. In preparation for the Workshop, a series of pre-workshop surveys were used to gather community input from the diverse set of interested stakeholders across government, academic, and private sectors.

Survey 1 was available in late October and was broken up into 8 applications with 2-6 subsections per application.  Through the survey, we were trying to identify what are:

• Critical fields that are needed by the user community to assess skill in each application
• Omissions in the lists of fields that were generated at the 2018 Evaluation Metrics Workshop

UFS Application	Response by Sector (updated 11/02)		All Survey Results
Short Range Weather / Convection Allowing Model Sub-sections: Upper-Level, Surface/Sensible Weather, Aviation, Air Quality, Precipitation, Severe, Winter Weather, Land Surface, and Hydrologic	Total: 142		SRW/CAM Survey Results
Medium Range Weather / Subseasonal to Seasonal Sub-sections: Upper-Level Synoptic, Surface/Sensible Weather, Land-Surface, Marine/Waves, Sub-Seasonal	Total: 98		MRW/S2S Survey Results
Seasonal Sub-sections: General Synoptic, Seasonal	Total: 38		Seasonal Survey Results
Air Quality/ Atmospheric Composition Sub-sections: Surface/Sensible Weather, Aerosols, Chemistry	Total: 57		Air Quality/Atmospheric Composition Survey Results
Coastal Sub-sections: General Marine, Coastal	Total: 32		Coastal Survey Results
Hurricane Sub-sections: Environmental, TC Attributes	Total: 73		Hurricane Survey Results
Marine and Cryosphere Sub-sections: Marine, Cryosphere	Total: 42		Marine and Cryosphere Survey Results
Space Sub-sections: Tropospheric Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Ions/Molecules, Indices and Other Parameters	Total: 16		Space Weather Survey Results