WRF Verification Toolkit Workshop

Location:

The Hotel Boulderado
2115 Thirteenth Street
Boulder, CO 80302

Much of the workshop will be held in the Columbine room. Breakout sessions will be held in the Columbine and Balsam rooms, as denoted in the schedule below.
We ask each speaker to limit his/her talk to the time alotted. The time alotted includes time for questions, so each speaker should leave room for no less than 5 minutes for questions and discussion within his/her alotted time. Thanks for your cooperation!

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Time	Wednesday (21 Feb)	Time	Thursday (22 Feb)	Time	Friday (23 Feb)
8:00a-8:30a	Coffee and pastries	8:00a-8:30a	Coffee and pastries	8:00a-8:30a	Coffee and pastries
8:30a-10:00a	"Welcome and Introduction"; Barbara Brown (10 mins) "Workshop Goals"; Barbara Brown (20 mins) "Overview of the Developmental Testbed Center" ; Bob Gall (30 mins) "Designing a DTC Verification System"; Jennifer Mahoney (30 mins)	8:30a-10:00a	Breakout topic 1 topic 2 discussion	8:30a-10:00a	Panel Discussion: Operational Verification Systems -- Lessons Learned
10:00a-10:30a	Break	10:00a-10:30a	Break	10:00a-10:30a	Break
10:30a-12:00p	"The WRF Verification Toolkit"; Lacey Holland (20 mins) "Operational Verification, A Biased European Outlook"; Pertti Nurmi (30 mins) "WRF Verification User Feedback"; Tressa Fowler (20 mins) "Spatial Methods Intercomparison Meeting"; Eric Gilleland (20 mins)	10:30a-12:30p	"Observations Intro"; Tressa Fowler (15 mins) "An Introduction to Measurement Systems Analysis"; Jeffrey Luftig (30 mins) "Lessons from Data Assimilation"; Dale Barker (15 mins) "Spatial Methods Intro"; Eric Gilleland (15 mins) ""; Beth Ebert (25 mins) "Diagnostic Evaluation of Mesocale Models"; Chris Davis (20 mins)	10:30a-12:00p	Breakout Sessions: Topic 1: Diagnostic Verification and Extremes (Balsam Rm) Topic 2: Ensemble and Probabilistic Forecast Verification (Balsam Rm) Topic 3: Observations (Columbine Rm) Topic 4: Spatial Methods (Columbine Rm)
12:00p-1:30p	Lunch	12:30p-2:00p	Lunch	12:00p-1:30p	Lunch
1:30p-3:30p	"Diagnostic Verification and Extremes Intro"; Barbara Brown (15 mins) "Approaches to Diagnostic Verification"; Laurence Wilson (25 mins) "Verification of Extremes"; Barbara Casati (20 mins) "Ensembles and Probabilistic Forecast Verification Intro"; Lacey Holland (15 mins) "Common Verification Methods for Ensemble Forecasts"; Tom Hamill (25 mins) "Operational Ensemble Verif. Needs"; Zoltan Toth (20 mins)	2:00p-3:30p	Breakout Sessions: Topic 3: Observations (Balsam Rm) Topic 4: Spatial Methods (Columbine Rm)	1:30p-3:30p	Reports from final breakouts Wrap-up
3:30p-4:00p	Break	3:30p-4:00p	Break	3:30p - 7:30p	Free
4:00p-5:30p	Breakout Sessions: Topic 1: Diagnostic Vx and Extremes (Balsam Rm) Topic 2: Ensemble and Probabilistic Vx (Columbine Rm)	4:00p-5:30p	Breakout Topic 3 and Topic 4 discussion
5:30p - ???	Reception and Poster Session	5:30p - ???	Happy Hour at Location TBD	7:30p - ???	Bookcliff Wine Tasting (Pearl St.)

To register, please send an email to Tressa L. Fowler < tressa@ucar.edu>