1. Projects

2. Goals and setup • Learn by doing – R and verification methods • Understanding – choose appropriate verification tools for your problem • Get some real results • Relevance – we have 7 datasets contributed, and a couple from the SWFDP project • Groups… • Analysis in either R or Excel • Prepare and present results (last day of the science workshop Mar. 19 • Full descriptions and data should be downloaded from FTP site

3. Project list • 1. Intercomparison of in situ and remote-sensed precipitation estimates • 2. “The great Africas cup” – ECMWF vs MOGREPS pcpn fcsts for African stations • 3. Max/min temperature verification for Sudan • 4. Precipitation verification for Sudan • 5. Indonesia wave heights verification • 6. India assessment of model forecasts for one cold wave and one heat wave • 7. Track verification for Typhoon Haiyan • 8. India ensemble seasonal rainfall forecast verification • 9. NCEP and ECMWF deterministic forecast verification for East Africa stations.

4. Group assignments for projects • Group 1: Rauniyar, Meka, Kashid, Chakravarthy • Group 2: Mbithi, Lipiki, Tadiwos, Ryan, Dube, Ratna (Laurie) • Group 3: Sultan, Nyamabu, Sharma, Matsudo • Group 4: Abdelfadil, Singh, Ebenebe, Nikitina • Group 5: Mujiasih, Srivastava, Prakash, Nguyen, Rana • Group 6: Mamgain, Das, Durai, Arora • Group 7: Carlos, Farinas, Jitarerat, Abhilash • Group 8: Acharya, Modali, Op, Kumar

5. What to do now… • Get together into your groups, meet each other • Get the folder called “Projects” from the ftp site. • The data supplier should describe his data and what he or she would like to do • Decide whether to use R or Excel to do the analyses