QA4Seas (Quality Assurance for Multi-model Seasonal Forecast Products) aims at developing a strategy for the evaluation and quality control (EQC) of the multi-model seasonal forecasts provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) to respond to the needs identified among a wide range of stakeholders.

The quality assessment will be user driven and will put at work the best expertise available on the evaluation of the multi-faceted quality aspects of state-of-the-art seasonal forecast systems. A thorough survey, coordinated with other lots of the C3S 51 tender, will be undertaken and analysed to provide a detailed mapping of the user needs, identifying those features that should be addressed with priority. The survey, will be fed with general information about the data available and the concepts that form the basis of seasonal forecasting, including illustrations from a preliminary assessment.

Its outcome will be used to identify a set of the requirements for the climate data store (CDS) to address the main user requirements, to perform a gap analysis of the current information available to users and to develop a prototype of the EQC system that will illustrate the strategy proposed for the future development of the C3S.

QA4Seas is a project funded by Copernicus Programmes and operated by ECMWF
The project is split into two periods covering the total duration of the contract (M1-M18; M19-M27).

BSC is supported by:

MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
Predictia, Spain
University of Leeds, UK
University of Exeter, UK
Instituto de Física de Cantabria - CSIC, Spain

The activity of the two main phases will be organised around the five work packages, plus one work package dealing with the project management and the communication of the main outcomes (WP0)

Scientific objectives: Users’ consultation, assessment of user requirements and preliminary scientific assessment
Contractual framework: covered by Bilateral Collaboration Agreement #1 with each partner

Scientific Objectives Formulation of the requirements, 2nd stage of user's consultation, gap assessment and development of eht EQC framework and the prototype
Contractual framework: covered by Bilateral Collaboration Agreement #2 with each partner

WP1: Assessment of user requirements

WP2: Climate data inventory

WP3: Scientific assessments and gap analysis

WP4: CDS requirements

WP5: EQC framework

C3S Second General Assembly Agenda

C3S 51 Lot 3 Poster

Presentations:

Via Webex, 19th October 2017, 16:00-18:30

The Agenda is available here

Presentations:

Oslo, 12th October 2017

Observational interaction between QA4Seas and other C3S lots

Summary of the meeting

Barcelona, 12-14th June 2017

Agenda - Draft (v7)

Toulouse, 6-10th March 2017; All presentations are available on the Copernicus website

EQC Status Overview (F.J. Doblas-Reyes)

QA4Seas poster

EQC side meeting - notes

Barcelona, 14th February 2017

Minutes and links to supporting material.

Barcelona, 11th January 2017

Agenda (draft)

Summary of the meeting (draft)

The kick-off meeting took place in Barcelona on 4th-5th July 2016.

Agenda of the event

Presentations