WORKING GROUP 7: MODEL TESTING AND VERIFICATION

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Representatives: 

        Chris Davis (lead)
          NCAR/Mesoscale Microscale Meteorology Division

        Jennifer Mahoney
          NOAA/Forecast Systems Laboratory

        Ying Lin
          NOAA/NCEP

        Fred Carr
          OU/Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms

        Bob Craig
          Air Force Weather Agency

        Mark Swenson
          Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center

        Jeffrey Lerner
          Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center

        Stan Trier
          NCAR/Mesoscale Microscale Meteorology Division


   

Mission:

This mission of this working group can be summarized in terms of two main objectives, testing and verification. The mission for model testing is to create a suite of tests of the WRF model for a range of idealized and real weather situations which will serve four purposes:

  1. Provide a quick and easy-to-execute introduction to WRF and give an overview of the capabilities of the model. This is intended primarily for new users.
  2. Provide a tool to quickly assess the effect of changes to the WRF model.
  3. Provide a standard for testing of other weather prediction models.
  4. Provide the framework for an educational tutorial on high-resolution weather prediction.
The mission for the verification component of WG-7 is to assess the performance of the WRF model in simulations of real-atmosphere evolution on local and regional scales. As needed we will develop new verification tools that account for the highly localized and episodic nature of weather events and the inherent limitations of predictability of such events.


WRF Testing Plan (in MS Word)

WRF Testing Results


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