Verification Workshop: Making Verification More Meaningful

Sponsered by the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Weather Research Program


Dates: 30 July - 1 August 2002

Location: NCAR Foothills Lab, Boulder, Colorado (Click Here for directions)

Registration Fee: None, but all participants must register in advance. Contact Inger Gallo (address listed below) to register

Lodging Options: HERE

Entertainment: FUN

10 June 2002 (Please submit abstracts to Inger Gallo at the e-mail address listed below)

Meeting Schedule: Click Here

Focus and Working Groups: Verification needs of developers and end users
                                                Advanced verification methods
                                                Observation issues

Issues: Scaling impacts
             Grid vs. Point verification
             Limitations due to observation distrubtion
             Impacts of observation quality on verification statistics
             Diagnostic approaches - how?
             Statistical basis for verification
             Comparison of different kinds of forecasts (e.g., human vs. automated)
             Ensemble verification
             Probabilistic verification approaches
             Operationally relevant verification
             Verification needs of developers and end users

Invited Speakers: Coming Soon!

For more information, or to sign up for the workshop, contact:
                            Inger Gallo
                            NCAR/RAP
                            303-497-8403
                            gallo@rap.ucar.edu

Other Contacts: Barbara Brown
                            bgb@rap.ucar.edu

                            Jennifer Mahoney
                            mahoney@fsl.noaa.gov

                            Tressa Fowler
                            tressa@rap.ucar.edu