Slide 1 PERFORMANCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS VERSUS MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS Jeff Baars Cliff Mass Mark Albright University of Washington, Seattle, Washington…

Slide 1 MOS Developed by and Run at the NWS Meteorological Development Lab (MDL) Full range of products available at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/synop/index.ph p Slide 2…

PERFORMANCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS VERSUS MODEL OUTPUT STATISTICS Jeff Baars Cliff Mass Mark Albright University of Washington, Seattle, Washington This work…

Post Processing Model Output Can Usually Be Improved with Post Processing Can remove systematic bias Can produce probabilistic information from deterministic information…

MOS Performance MOS significantly improves on the skill of model output. National Weather Service verification statistics have shown a narrowing gap between human and MOS…