Objectives:

• Recommend verification metrics and datasets for assessing forecast quality of S2S forecasts
• Provide guidance for a potential centralized verification effort for comparing forecast quality of different S2S forecast systems, including the comparison of multi-model and individual ensemble systems and consider linkages with users and applications

Membership:

Caio Coelho (CPTEC/INPE, Brazil)

Andrew Robertson (IRI, USA)

Richard Graham (UKMO, UK)

Yuhei Takaya (JMA, Japan)

Debra Hudson (CAWCR, Australia)

Joanne Robbins (UKMO, UK)