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This workshop, held on 08/14/2007 at Salt Lake City RFC, aimed to identify areas of improvement in the modeling process, provide more detailed information than national requirements, and offer immediate feedback to forecasters. It also focused on the enhancement of RVF Verification, QPF Verification, and the development of new plans to assess regional bias.
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Verification Activities at Northeast RFC 2007 Verification Workshop Salt Lake City RFC Verification Workshop, 08/14/2007
Local Verification Objectives • Identify areas of improvement in modeling process • Provide more details than available in national requirements • Provide more immediate feedback to forecasters
RVF Verification Enhancements • Local application runs off of IVP pairs file • Add POD, FAR statistics • Discriminate by lead time, basis time, and flood conditions • Sample output
QPF Verification Enhancements • Graphic of QPF, observed, difference, and ratio • Graphic of RFC, HPC, and NDFD (almost) and observed
QPF Plans • Sum fields over longer period to assess regional bias • Accumulate over MAP areas