Physics Suite Testing for GFS v16

Diagnostics and Verification


The GMTB computed additional, complimentary verification metrics and diagnostics, focusing on scorecards, precipitation, planetary boundary layer (PBL), energy budget, and tropical cyclones. A vast number of results were generated -- in the links below, a description of observation datasets and/or benchmarks, methodology, and sample of results is provided, with full results available in the GMTB's Final Report and via tar files.

The following verification and diagnostics were generated by the GMTB: Scorecards: Temperature, RH, and wind speed
Scorecards: Precipitation
Grid-to-grid precipitation
Mean state bias precipitation
Relationship between precipitation and preciptable water
Vertical profiles for RH, diabatic heating, and precipitable water
Vertical profiles wind and thermodynamic variables
Skew-T log-P diagrams
Energy budget
Tropical cyclone verification
Tropical cyclogenesis
Spectral decomposition
Sensitivity to dynamics options in the CCPP