Description:

In 2018, we introduced a topic to improve NWS’ analysis and short-term weather analysis and forecasting by addressing field forecasters’ needs on the solutions (i.e., modeling systems). Since then, in conjunction with the associated Town Hall Meetings with a similar topic, we hosted a number of sessions each year to discuss various ways to improve the analysis and short-term forecasting by trying to reflect the field's needs in terms of modeling requirements. 

Since many regional forecast systems span beyond the short-term forecasting range and since they are affected by the atmospheric state beyond the short-term timeframe, and since global forecast systems influence the regional scale weather, we are expanding the scope of our session to include all the temporal and spatial ranges of weather forecasting, and we revised our topic title accordingly. 

We would like to invite you to present your ideas, plans and/or results on any aspect of analysis and forecasting, including modeling, evaluation, forecasting and warning. With your input, we will discuss how to better identify and resolve systematic issues present in the models and try to link research and operations to forecasters’ needs in order to better serve the public with improved weather analyses and forecasts.

For questions or suggestions, please contact YJ Kim (young-joon.kim@noaa.gov). Thank you.