Session 6A |
| | Statistical Techniques: MOS and Operational Forecast Support |
| | CoChair: Roger V. Pierce, OAR, Silver Spring, MD
Chair: Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWSFO, Valley, NE
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| 4:00 PM | 6A.1 | On the ability to develop MOS guidance with short dependent samples from an evolving numerical model  
Mark S. Antolik, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. N. Baker |
| 4:15 PM | 6A.2 | GFS-Based MOS Opaque Sky Cover and Ceiling Height Guidance for the Contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
Wei Yan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Zhao |
| 4:30 PM | 6A.3 | The NMM MOS replacement for the Eta MOS
Joseph C. Maloney III, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Engle, P. Shafer, and G. Wagner |
| 4:45 PM | 6A.4 | Improvements to the Localized Aviation MOS Program (LAMP) statistical guidance for ceiling height and sky cover
Mitchell Weiss, WYLE Information Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; and J. E. Ghirardelli |
| 5:00 PM | 6A.5 | The conditional risk of severe convection estimated from archived NWS/Storm Prediction Center mesoscale objective analyses: potential uses in support of forecast operations and verification
Andrew R. Dean, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. S. Schneider, R. L. Thompson, J. Hart, and P. D. Bothwell |
| 5:15 PM | 6A.6 | Gridded Model Output Statistics: improving and expanding
Kathryn K. Gilbert, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. L. Cosgrove, K. L. Sheets, and G. A. Wagner |