Session 5 Novel Methods in Verification

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
260 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 26th Conference on Probability and Statistics
Cochairs:
Tara Jensen, NCAR, Joint Numerical Testbed, Boulder, CO; Jason J Levit, NOAA, Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD and Michelle Harold, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO

Papers:
10:30 AM
5.1
Background Fit to Satellite Observations
William F. Campbell, NRL, Monterey, CA

10:45 AM
5.2
Understanding Forecast Verification from a Design of Experiments Perspective
Jeffrey A. Smith, Army Research Lab, White Sands Missle Range, NM; and J. W. Raby, J. L. Cleveland, and R. S. Penc

11:00 AM
5.3
Next-Generation Air Force Weather Metrics via Bayes Cost Analysis
Brandon M. Bailey, AFIT = Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and A. J. Geyer

11:15 AM
5.4
Hypothesis Tests of Approximate Equality for Evaluating Forecasts as Functional Objects
Leif Ellingson, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. Bandara and S. Ghosh

11:30 AM
5.5
The Model Evaluation Tools (MET): Recent Additions and Enhancements
John E. Halley Gotway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, R. G. Bullock, H. Soh, D. W. Fillmore, and J. Prestopnik

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