Utilizing the New Email Stats Feature of BoiVerify 2.0 to Examine Min and Max Temperature Guidance

摘要

With the advent of BoiVerify, NWS offices have been able to verify gridded forecasts, and also to automatically bias correct numerical guidance to potentially serve as better initialization in the digital forecast process. With the 2.0 upgrade, statistics can now be automatically generated and emailed to interested parties, which can serve as an easy and automatic way to determine which grids represent the best starting point for the upcoming digital forecast package. Offices in Western Region have spent the past 18 months examining output from BoiVerify and used it to determine a suggested methodology for utilizing bias corrected grids in the forecast process, primarily the MOSGuideBC grids. This short paper examines the statistics available in the email feature of BoiVerify to examine the variability of bias corrected grids under specific regimes to test the robustness of MOSGuideBC grids in an active winter season in the Flagstaff CWA, along with testing the new SREF/SREFBC guidance grids.