Slide 1 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI (instructor led activity) Southern Africa
Slide 2 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI Extremely Fantastic Intuition Extreme Forecast Index EFI is a measure of the difference between the ENS distribution and a model climate (M-climate) distribution.
Slide 3 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI … … Ordering CDFPDF Probability of not exceeding Threshold Density per threshold Interval (normalised) model climate eps forecast parameter value
Slide 4 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Represented by pink lines below More weight to extremes of M-climate EFI = 78% M-climate EPS EFI takes no direct account of any EPS members beyond the M- climate extremes -1 ≤ EFI ≤ % ≤ EFI ≤ 100% p
Slide 5 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF What can we say about CDFs of successive ENS runs? M-climate Successive ENS runs rank value Lateral variations in CDF position between successive runs are due to the model/flow uncertainty A steeper CDF implies higher confidence.
Slide 6 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+9
Slide 7 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+9 D+10
Slide 8 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+9D+10
Slide 9 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10 mm >20 mm
Slide 10 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+8
Slide 11 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+8D+9
Slide 12 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+8D+9
Slide 13 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 14 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+7 D+8
Slide 15 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+7D+8
Slide 16 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+7
Slide 17 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 18 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+6
Slide 19 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+7 D+6
Slide 20 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+6 D+7
Slide 21 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 22 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+5
Slide 23 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+6 D+5
Slide 24 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+5D+6
Slide 25 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 26 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+4
Slide 27 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+5D+4
Slide 28 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+4D+5
Slide 29 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 30 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI T PrecipitationTemperature
Slide 31 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+3
Slide 32 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+4D+3
Slide 33 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENSD+4D+3
Slide 34 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 35 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI T PrecipitationTemperature
Slide 36 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+2
Slide 37 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+3D+2
Slide 38 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 39 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI T PrecipitationTemperature
Slide 40 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+1
Slide 41 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF HRES & ENS D+2 D+1
Slide 42 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF ENS Probabilities T >10mm>20mm
Slide 43 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI T PrecipitationTemperature
Slide 44 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EPSgrams – D+0
Slide 45 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI T PrecipitationTemperature
Slide 46 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF EFI snow h72-96h 48-72h24-48h
Slide 47 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF M-Climate Precipitation - Q98 Temperature – Q2 Snow – Q98
Slide 48 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Verification
Slide 49 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Observed Precipitation 25.07/06UTC-26.07/06UTC Observed Precipitation 26.07/06UTC-27.07/06UTC Durban
Slide 50 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Observations
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Slide 52 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Observations
Slide 53 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Observations
Slide 54 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Observations
Slide 55 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Snow
Slide 56 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Snow, Forecast
Slide 57 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Bethlehem Airport Observed Forecast
Slide 58 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Bethlehem Airport Observed Forecast
Slide 59 WMO Macao – April 2013 © ECMWF Hogsback, 1543m above sea level 0°C M-climate, snow