Pre-Workshop Survey 3 | dtcenter.org

To help with understanding Statistical Options, here are some links to descriptions based on :

Continuous Statistics (values change smoothly across a region):
https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_foreasts_of_continuous_variables

Categorical Statistics (did event occur or not):
https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_dichotomous_forecasts

Multi-Category Statistics (3 or more discrete values):
https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_multi-category_forecasts

Spatial Methods: https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_spatial_forecasts.
Also, please refer to the METplus MODE attributes description to help with answering this question. Description can be found at: https://dtcenter.org/sites/default/files/events/2021/metrics-workshop/MODE_Attributes.pdf

Probability and Ensemble Statistics:
https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_EPS

Rare Events:
https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#Methods_for_rare_events

Survey 3 is broken up into 9 surveys with 6-20 subsections per application and may take 5-20 minutes to complete. We have already identified critical fields, levels, and temporal attributes. Through this survey, we are trying to identify what are the critical: 1) Statistics; 2) Thresholds; 3) Regions and 4) Sources of "Truth". Please follow the links to the surveys for each application. You only need to take the surveys to which you feel comfortable responding.

UFS APPLICATION	RESPONSE BY SECTOR (UPDATED 2/19)
SHORT RANGE WEATHER / CONVECTION ALLOWING MODEL	Total: 65
MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER	Total: 39
SUB-SEASONAL and SEASONAL	Total: 37
AIR QUALITY/COMPOSITION	Total: 25
CRYOSPHERE	Total: 8
DATA ASSIMILATION	Total: 20
HURRICANE	Total: 34
MARINE AND COASTAL	Total: 13
SPACE	Total: 9