Forecaster Evaluation
During the New England High Resolution Temperature and Air Quality
Forecasting Pilot Study (TAQ), a variety of near real-time resources
will be made available to National Weather Service and Air Quality
forecasters in the New England area. These resources will include: a
network of boundary layer wind profilers, supplemental surface data, and
forecast fields from an experimental configuration of the Rapid Update
Cycle run at 10 km resolution. In an effort to determine the impact of
these resources on the forecast process, three feedback strategies will
be made available to the forecasters during TAQ: web-based feedback
forms, feedback via Area Forecast Discussions, and a special email
address. This approach to gathering feedback was successfully
implemented this past winter during the PACJET-2002 deployment along the
west coast of the US.

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Screen shot of profiler evaluation form.
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Screen shot of RUC evaluation form.
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