88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 11: Verification

Thursday, 24 January 2008: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
226-227 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
CoChair:  Joanne Volk, Meteorological Service of Canada
Papers:
  11:15 AM
The Real-Time Verification System (RTVS-NG): A new verification framework
Sean Madine, OAR, Boulder, CO; and N. D. Matheson, M. A. Petty, D. S. Schaffer, and J. Mahoney

  11:30 AM
Aligning forecast verification with user-specific needs - an example for aviation
Michael P. Kay, NOAA/ESRL/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine, J. Mahoney, and J. E. Hart

  11:45 AM
A lead-time metric for assessing skill in forecasting the onset of IFR events
Andrew Loughe, NOAA/ESRL/GSD/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine, J. Mahoney, and M. Graf

  12:00 PM
Statistical assessment of explicit model forecasts of convection using a new object-based approach
Cody L. Phillips, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, M. Steiner, R. M. Rasmussen, and N. Oien