A verification meeting took place in Bruxelles on 27-29 March, 2012.

 Participants

A. Deckmyn (Be), N. Pristov (Si), J. Rio (Pt), P. Termonia (Be), C. Zingerle (Au), M. Turkmen (Tk)

 Background

One of the five short-term ALADIN actions concerns the issue to launch an effort to “define†our users and to coordinate a project on addressing the user requirements.
This is related to the problem of the verification of our models and in reality can be split in three
complementary tasks:

• identification of verification scores and procedures that are specifically aimed at user needs,
• the (further) development of the verification methods with a common verification toolbox, and
  besides that,
• the activities need to be supplemented with a regular quality monitoring of the operational
  forecasts within the consortium.

This should be organized in close collaboration with HIRLAM and the 2011 ALADIN workshop/HIRLAM ASM proposed to renew the impulse by the creation of a verification task force.

 Main propositions

The working days’ participants agreed on the following proposals (to be presented and debated during the 2012 ALADIN Workshop :

• Make the quality monitoring tool in Ljubljana sufficiently operational that it will produce
  monthly quality reports on a regular basis for the operational models in the ALADIN countries.
  And also it must be easy to access the verification results from outside and sending requests of
  the users period/parameter/score of interest.
• Develop a common verification toolbox based on the R package, together with HIRLAM.
• Draw up a list of “exemplary†ALADIN end users, from a questionnaire to the partners along
  with an identified decision-making procedure and verification scores (that will become part of
  the verification toolbox).

The staff should be identified.