Forecast Verification Workshop
February 19, 2008
Center Green Facility, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
Main Auditorium, Building CG-1

Overview
This workshop is designed to provide users of any kind of climate forecast with the tools to evaluate the overall quality of the forecast. The workshop will emphasize water supply forecasts in the Western United States but the concepts will be applicable to other kinds of forecasts including NOAA’s official Climate Prediction Center forecasts for temperature and precipitation and experimental forecasts issued by Klaus Wolter of the Western Water Assessment. Presenters will include some of the key developers of streamflow forecasts for Colorado as well as Western Water Assessment personnel. New online interactive tools to allow water supply professionals to gage forecast quality will be demonstrated and used by participants.

Workshop Materials
Forecast Verification: Past, Present, and Future, by Julie Malmberg, WWA, January Intermountain West Climate Summary
Event Location and Directions for NCAR Center Green Facility
Agenda
Workshop Presentations

Sponsors
This workshop is sponsored by the University of Colorado – NOAA Western Water Assessment, in conjunction with NOAA’s Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the NOAA NWS Salt Lake City Regional Office. Below is a tentative agenda. A final agenda, event location, and additional logistic info will be provided in coming weeks.

Workshop Planning Team
Brad Udall, Director, WWA, bradley.udall@colorado.edu
Kevin Werner, CBRFC, NWS-NOAA, kevin.werner@noaa.gov
Tom Pagano, NRCS, tom.pagano@por.usda.gov
Michelle Schmidt, NOAA, CBRFC, michelle.schmidt@noaa.gov
Christina Alvord, WWA , christina.alvord@noaa.gov

To facilitate planning, please RSVP to Christina Alvord at christina.alvord@noaa.gov or 303-497-4980.