Background
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS-2016) recommended to establish a Lead Centre for Wave Forecast Verification (LC-WFV) and to designate ECMWF as this Lead Centre.
Objective
The main objective of this Lead Centre is to coordinate wave forecast verification by
- Providing the facility for Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) participating Centres producing global or ocean basin scale wave forecasts to automatically deposit their gridded forecast fields, and have access to the verification statistics computed for these fields
- Maintaining an archive of the verification statistics to allow the generation and display of trends in performance
- Monitoring the received forecast fields and consult with the relevant JCOMM participating Centre if data are missing or suspect
- Collecting annually from the participating centres information on any changes to their wave forecast systems
- Providing access to the data sets used to perform the standard verification, including lists of observations and keep this up to date according to JCOMM recommendations
- Providing on its website:
- Up-to-date graphical displays of verification results from JCOMM participating Centres based on evaluation of the received forecast fields
- Relevant documentation including access to the standard procedures required to perform the verification, and links to the websites of JCOMM participating Centres
- Contact details to encourage feedback from JCOMM participating Centres on the usefulness of the verification information
Participating Centres
BoM: Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
CNR-AM: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
DMI: Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (Denmark)
DWD: Deutscher Wetterdienst (Meteorological Service of Germany)
ECMWF: European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
FNMOC: Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (USA)
JMA: Japan Meteorological Agency
KMA: Korea Meteorological Administration
METNO: Norweign Meteorological Institute
MSC: Meteorological Service of Canada
MeteoFrance
NCEP: National Centers for Environmental Prediction (USA)
NIWA: National Institute of Water & Atmospheric (New Zealand)
Puerto del Estado (Spain)
SHN-SM: Department of Meteorology of the Naval Hydrographic Service (Argentina)
SHOM: Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (France)
UK MetOffice
Data format
Verification plots