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About the ICP

Recent advancements in weather forecasting and observational systems have created great improvements in resolution and prediction. However, use of standard verification practices often indicate poorer performance because, among other things, they are unable to account for small-scale noise or discriminate types of errors such as displacement in time and/or space (see papers in the references section). This issue has motivated recent research and development of many new verification techniques for handling spatial forecasts. The intent of this project is to compare the various newly proposed methods to give the user information about which methods are appropriate for which types of data, forecasts and desired forecast utility.

Research Leads: David Ahijevych and Eric Gilleland

News

The Fall 2009 ICP meetings were held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Center Green campus on 24-25 August. Slide presentations and meeting summary are now posted.

New and soon to be published papers on spatial forecast verification

A special collection of papers to Weather and Forecasting is being prepared. The first papers in the collection will be published soon, and most are already available at the Early Online Release web page of the journal. Click here for more information.

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