- Operational Global Forecast System (GFS) "Headline" Scores: Monthly/Yearly ACC, Useful Forecast Day, ACC Die-off vs GEFS and NAEFS
- Operational Global Forecast System (GFS) Main Verification Page
- Grid-to-Grid Verification (Multi-model Anomaly Corrrelation, etc)
- Grid-to-Observations Verification (Bias, RMS Error)
- Global data assimilation monitoring
- Historical long-term global model annual statistics
- Historical monthly long-term global model statistics (Description):
- WAFC Washington Performance Indicators
- Global Ensemble (GEFS) Main Verification Page
- North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) Verification Page
- Climate Forecast System (CFS) Verification Page
Verification
Model verification is an integral part of the NWP development process. Under the supervision of the Verification, Post-processing and Product Generation Branch, EMC supports an assortment of verification projects for NCEP's numerical systems:
- EMC Model Evaluation Group Main Web Page
- Comprehensive list of NCEP operational system verification web sites maintained by EMC (see Disclaimer below)
1) Global Model Verification
2) Air Quality Model Verification : CMAQ and Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model (HYSPLIT)
3) Regional / Mesoscale Verification
- SREF vs GEFS Verification
- Operational Mesoscale Analysis Page (RTMA, URMA, RTMA-RU, URMA Time Series, URMA QPE)
4) Precipitation Verification / Analysis, Cloud Verification
- Daily 24-h precipitation forecasts from NCEP and international models compared to Stage IV analyses
- Hourly/6-hourly Precipitation Analysis at NCEP/EMC (RTMA/URMA QPE, Stage II)
- Global Ensemble Precipitation Verification (updated seasonally)
- Global and Regional Model/Ensemble Cloud Verification
- Object-oriented (MODE) precipitation verification run by WPC for many regional and global models
5) Marine/Ocean Model Verification
- Global RTOFS Class-1 Satellite Verification
- Global RTOFS Sea Ice Validation
- Global RTOFS Ocean Fronts (Gulf Stream, Loop Current, Kuroshio)
- Global RTOFS Florida Cable Transports
- WAVEWATCH III Production Validation Archive (2013-2020, updated yearly)
- WAVEWATCH III Production Hindcast, Multigrid
- Nearshore Wave Prediction System
6) Hurricane / Cyclones Verification
- HWRF plots with verification options
- Hurricanes in a Multi-scale Ocean coupled Non-hydrostatic model (HMON)
- Tropical Cyclone Verification (updated yearly)
- Extratropical Cyclone Verification/Tracking