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Accession Number:
AD1036722
Title:
Verification of Weather Running Estimate-Nowcast (WRE-N) Forecasts Using a Spatial-Categorical Method
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report,01 Oct 2016,31 Jul 2017
Corporate Author:
US Army Research Laboratory White Sands Missile Range United States
Report Date:
2017-07-01
Pagination or Media Count:
36.0
Abstract:
Spatial forecasts from Numerical Weather Prediction NWP models of meteorological variables to support US Army operations on the battlefield have become an integral part of the products available for the Staff Weather Officer to use in providing mission planning and execution forecasts. These forecasts are ingested by certain Army tactical decision aids TDAs and are fused with information on the operational weather thresholds, which impact the performance of Army systems and missions. Such a TDA generates spatial and temporal forecasts of these impacts for user-specified systems andor missions. This report presents the results from applying a method to verify forecast fields of meteorological variables that have been filtered by the application of a threshold, similar to the method used by the TDA. A threshold applied to a continuous variable field becomes a categorical forecast for which there are traditional and nontraditional methods for verification. This study evaluates the ability of the NWP model to predict multiple categories of the spatial variable. Preliminary results suggest the skill of the model when predicting objects defined by lower thresholds is greater than the skill for objects defined by higher thresholds.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
