Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Projects
Missy Petty, Acting Chief
Brian Etherton, Acting Deputy Chief
Society depends upon accurate and informative weather information to support daily living decisions and to protect life and property when damaging weather arises. Forecast quality information provides the feedback mechanisms required for improving weather forecast accuracy and the usefulness of the weather information to the consumer.
The Forecast Impact and Quality Assessment Section's innovative and creative techniques and assessment strategies are empowering consumers of weather information in their decision making processes by providing scientifically robust forecast assessment tools, concepts, and analyses.
- Aviation Weather Technology Transition Projects
- National Ceiling and Visibilty Analysis Evaluation
- World Area Forecast System (WAFS) Global Icing Evaluation
- CoSPA Evaluation
- Consumer-Specific Evaluation Research
- Forecast integration and decision support
- User-specific metrics and methods
- Sector-based verification
- Air traffic capacity measures
- Object-based verification approaches
- Forecast supplement verification strategies
- FAA Operations Support
- Convective forecast assessments for strategic planning
- NAS metrics development
- NextGen Support
- NEVS Development
- NEVS Transitions
- Decision Support and Forecast Verification Integration