UCAR Outstanding Publication Award
Recipient(s)
Chris Davis, Barb Brown, and Randy Bullock
Award Year
2009
Award Type
internal
Awarding Organization or Entity
UCAR
An Object-Oriented Approach to the Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts: Part I - Methodology and Part II - Examples
Chris Davis (MMM/RAL), Barb Brown (RAL), and Randy Bullock (RAL) for their pioneering paper on an object-based verification methodology which mimics the human perception of forecast quality and provides diagnostic feedback on the nature of forecast errors. This paper marks an important shift from traditional statistical scoring toward a diagnostically relevant verification approach that will change the way forecast performance assessments will be done in the future.