World Meteorological Organization

To plan and implement the verification component of WWRP; To serve as a focal point for the development and dissemination of new verification methods for WWRP and EPAC, as required; To facilitate and encourage training and dissemination of information on verification methodologies; To take into account the needs of users so as to ensure the relevance of the practice of forecast verification; To facilitate the development and application of improved diagnostic verification methods to assess and enable improvement of the quality of weather forecasts, including forecasts from numerical weather and climate models; To encourage the sharing of observational data for verification purposes; To encourage greater awareness in the research community of the importance of verification as a vital part of numerical and field experiments rather than an "afterthought"; To promote collaboration among scientists conducting research on various aspects of forecast verification as well as with model developers and forecast providers; and To collaborate on forecast verification with the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) and WCRP and in coordination with CBS.