84th AMS Annual Meeting

Joint Session 13: Verification of Gridded Forecasts (Joint between the 20th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/16th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction and the17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences) (Room 6A)

Thursday, 15 January 2004: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 6A
Chair:  Mary M. Cairns, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
Papers:
  3:30 PM
MVT—An Automated Mesoscale Verification Tool
Scott A. Sandgathe, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Heiss

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
  3:45 PM
A global version of MM5: Method and verification
Jimy Dudhia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. F. Bresch

Poster PDF (396.7 kB)
  4:00 PM
Verifying mesoscale model precipitation forecasts using an acuity-fidelity approach
Stephen F. Marshall, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA; and P. J. Sousounis and T. A. Hutchinson

Poster PDF (555.6 kB)
  4:15 PM
Use of a modified Ebert-McBride technique to verify IHOP QPF as a function of convective system morphology
Jeremy S. Grams, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr., L. S. Wharton, S. Koch, E. E. Ebert, and A. Loughe

Poster PDF (269.4 kB)
  4:30 PM
Composite-Based Verification of Precipitation Forecasts from a Mesoscale Model
Jason E. Nachamkin, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen and J. Schmidt

Poster PDF (267.9 kB)
  4:45 PM
Examination of the performance of several mesoscale models for convective forecasting during IHOP
Edward J. Szoke, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown and B. Shaw

http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/szoke/IHOP/ihopmodeleval.html

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)