Jan Verkade – HEPEX

Verification of U.S. National Hurricane Center’s forecast advisories, 2006-2019

November 7, 2019 Jan Verkade Comments 0 Comment

Below is a re-post of a blog post that I recently published at forecastverification.com, which is a small company that I operate in part-time (in addition to my hydrometeorologist job at Deltares). While hurricane forecasting is a little removed from hydrometeorology, I figured that the disciplines have sufficient overlap for this to be interesting to the HEPEX community also. Happy reading! Introduction Post Hurricane Irma’s passage over Florida, back in September 2017, I analysed the quality of the forecasts that…

EGU2018 #hepex Twitter feed – stay updated of events as they unfold

April 6, 2018 Jan Verkade Comments 0 Comment

The week of April 9 sees the 2018 edition of the annual convention of the European Geosciences Union. “EGU2018” will be visited by approx 15,000 geoscientists including many working in the hydrometeorological arena. Last week, Fredrik provided us with an overview of some of the sessions and events that will be of interest to us HEPEX-ers. Many of the convention-visiting-hydrometeorologists will carry a Twitter enabled phone which they will use to brief the world about the most salient insights gained….

Melbourne HEPEX “Breaking the Barriers” convention – Twitter feed

February 2, 2018 Jan Verkade Comments 0 Comment

This week, the HEPEX traveling circus will descend on Melbourne, home of the Bureau of Meteorology, the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the CSIRO. HEPEX-ers will be tweeting their way through the convention – and these Tweets will be assembled in below Twitter stream. Feel free to add your thoughts, ideas and observations – just make sure they’re summarized in 140 280 characters max – and don’t forget to include the #hepex tag! #hepex at #EGU17

FcstVerChallenge: will you join the HEPEX team?

July 19, 2016 Jan Verkade Comments 0 Comment

You may have read Florian’s recent post on the WMO’s “forecast verification challenge”. In short: the WMO’s World Weather Research Programme set a challenge to develop new user oriented verification scores, metrics, diagnostics or diagrams. Any entries have to be submitted by the end of October and the winning entry will be awarded with a “keynote” presentation at the 2017 WMO verification meeting in Geneva as well as free passage into that event. Some HEPEX-ers got together last week and…