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