Session 3 Verification and Validation — Part I: Communicating Probabilistic Information and Predictive Skill

Monday, 8 January 2018: 2:00 PM-4:15 PM
Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 25th Conference on Probability and Statistics
Cochairs:
William Campbell, NRL, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA and Matthew S. Wandishin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Papers:
2:00 PM
3.1
Fostering Open Communication about Forecast Improvement (Invited Presentation)
Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO
2:30 PM
3.2
Unified Verification System
Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. L. Jensen, G. Manikin, L. F. Bosart, B. Strong, M. Ek, and V. Tallapragada
2:45 PM
3.3
Enhancing Community Collaborations through NWP Software Containers
John Halley Gotway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, K. R. Fossell, M. Harrold, T. L. Jensen, T. Burek, and J. Exby
3:00 PM
Break

3:15 PM
3.4
An Overview of Verification in Support of GSD Model Development and the Evolution of Process-Oriented Analysis Tools
Jeffrey A. Hamilton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Moninger, K. Holub, M. B. Smith, R. Pierce, and B. Strong
3:30 PM
3.5
Evaluation of Global Model Physics Advancements using a Hierarchical Framework
Man Zhang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Harrold, J. K. Wolff, G. J. Firl, L. Bernardet, J. K. Henderson, H. Jiang, and G. Grell
3:45 PM
3.6
The Forecast Skill Card and the Diagonal Score
Zied Ben Bouallegue, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and T. Haiden and D. S. Richardson
4:00 PM
3.7
Linearization of Air Temperatures on the Pacific Ocean on the Equatorial Line
César Diez Chirinos, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru; and C. J. Solano Sr.
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