Weather Forecasting Group

Beth Ebert : Conference Publications 1996-2005

Turk, F.J., P. Bauer, E. Ebert and P. Arkin, 2006: Satellite-derived precipitation verification activities within the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG). 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Amer. Met. Soc, Washington, D.C., January 2006.

Ebert, E.E., 2005: Ensemble forecasts of heavy rain. 17th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 3-6 October 2005, 85-88.

Ebert, E., 2005: Verification of nowcasts and very short range forecasts. WWRP Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting, Toulouse, France, 5-9 September 2005.

Ebert, E., 2005: A real time forecast verification system. WWRP Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting, Toulouse, France, 5-9 September 2005.

Ebert, E., T. Keenan, J. Bally, and S. Dance, 2005: Verification of operational thunderstorm nowcasts. WWRP Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting, Toulouse, France, 5-9 September 2005.

Ebert, E., 2005: Accuracy of satellite and model estimates of daily precipitation. 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle (GEWEX), Orange County, CA, 20-24 June 2005.

Ebert, E., 2005: Verification of ensembles. TIGGE 1st Workshop, ECMWF, Reading, UK, 1-3 March 2005.

Grams, J.S., W.A. Gallus, S. Koch, L.S. Wharton, A. Loughe, and E. E. Ebert, 2005: Use of a modified Ebert-McBride technique to evaluate mesoscale model QPF as a function of convective system morphology during IHOP 2002. 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Amer. Met. Soc, Washington, D.C., 1-5 August 2005.

Janowiak, J., E. Ebert and C. Kidd, 2005: Validation of satellite estimates and model forecasts of precipitation. 5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle (GEWEX), Orange County, CA, 20-24 June 2005.

Kidd, C., E. Ebert, J. Janowiak, and A. Gruber, 2005: Rainfall retrievals in mid-latitudes: initial analyses from the IPWG European validation site. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, 24-29 April 2005.

Ebert, E., 2004: Monitoring the quality of operational and semi-operational satellite precipitation estimates – the IPWG validation/intercomparison study. 2nd International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) Workshop, Monterey, CA, 25-28 October 2004.

Ebert, E., 2004: Assessment of Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) forecasts during the 2003-04 Australian tropical cyclone season. 2nd International Precipitation Working Group Meeting, Monterey, CA, 25-28 October 2004.

Brown, B. and E. Ebert, 2004: Spatial and object-oriented verification. Int'l Verification Methods Workshop, Montreal, Canada, 15-17 September 2004.

Seed, A.W. and E.E. Ebert, 2004: Use of radar rainfall estimates to evaluate mesoscale model forecasts of convective rainfall. 6th Intl. Symposium on Hydrological Applications of Weather Radar - Success Stories in Radar Hydrology, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 February 2004.

Grams, J.S., W.A. Gallus, L.S. Wharton, S. Koch, and E. E. Ebert, 2004: Use of a modified Ebert-McBride technique to verify IHOP QPF as a function of convective system morphology. 20th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Amer. Met. Soc, Seattle, WA, 11-15 January 2004.

Ebert, B. and A.W. Seed, 2003: Real-time and post-event evaluation of mesoscale model forecasts of convective rainfall. 15th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 13-16 October 2003, 73-77.
Ebert, E., 2003: Verification of nowcasts. WWRP/WMO Latin American Nowcasting Training Workshop, Brasilia, 3-14 November 2003.

Keenan, T., E. Ebert, V. Chandrasekar, V. Bringi and M. Whimpey, 2003: Comparison of TRMM satellite-based rainfall with surface radar and gauge information. Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toulouse, 21-25 July 2003.

Ebert, B. and G. Weymouth, 2003: The Australian operational daily rain gauge analysis. Report of the GEWEX Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Workshop on Precipitation Analysis, WCRP Informal Report No. 11/2003, 70-73.

E.Ebert and C. Jakob, 2003: Probabilistic precipitation forecasts from deterministic forecast models. 10th Natl Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Perth, 10-12 February 2003.

Turk, F.J., E. Ebert, H.J. Oh, B.J. Sohn, V. Levizzani, E.A. Smith and R. Ferraro, 2003: Validation of an operational global precipitation analysis at short time scales. 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Met. Soc, Long Beach, CA, 9-13 February 2003.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Heavy rain forecasts from operational NWP models. 14th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 November 2002, 85-88.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Poor man's (multi-model) ensemble forecasts of heavy rain. 14th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 November 2002, 161-164.

Jakob, C. and E.Ebert, 2002: Probabilistic precipitation forecasts from deterministic forecast models. 14th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 November 2002, 167-170.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Verifying satellite precipitation estimates for weather and hydrological applications. 1st Intl. Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 23-27 September 2002.

Turk, J., E. Ebert, B.-J. Sohn, V. Levizzani, E. Smith and R. Ferraro, 2002: Over-land validation of a global operational multi-satellite precipitation analysis at variable space and time scales. 1st Intl. Precipitation Working Group (IPWG) Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 23-27 September 2002.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Verification of precipitation forecasts. WWRP Intl. Conf. on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (QPF), University of Reading, UK, 2-6 September 2002.

Damrath, U., E. Ebert, and M. Baldwin, 2002: WGNE intercomparison of precipitation forecasts over Europe, USA and Australia . WWRP Intl. Conf. on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (QPF), University of Reading, UK, 2-6 September 2002.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Verification of spatial forecasts. NCAR/FAA Verification Workshop: Making Verification More Meaningful, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, 30 July - 1 August 2002.

Turk, J., E.E. Ebert, H.-J. Oh and B.-J. Sohn, 2002: Validation and applications of a realtime global precipitation analysis. Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Toronto, 24-28 June 2002.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: Upgrade to NMOC’s weather forecast guidance – Poor Man’s (multi-model) Ensemble forecasts of precipitation. Weather Services Scientific Conference, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, 3-7 June 2002.

Ebert, E.E., 2002: A poor man's ensemble for predicting rainfall in the short range. 9th Natl Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Melbourne, 18-20 February 2002.

Ebert, E.E., J. Bally, B. Brown and L. Wilson, 2002: Ability of radar-based nowcast algorithms to make useful rainfall predictions: Results from the Sydney 2000 Olympics Forecast Demonstration Project. 9th Natl Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Melbourne, 18-20 February 2002.

Brown, B.G., J. Bally, H.E. Brooks, B. Casati, E. Ebert, M. Jaeneke, P. Nurmi, D. Stephenson, and L. Wilson, 2001: Forecast verification activities for the Sydney 2000 Forecast Demonstration Project. 30th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Munich, Germany, 19-24 July 2001.

Ebert, E., 2001: Verification of precipitation areas. WWRP/WMO Workshop on the Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts, 14-16 May 2001, Prague, Czech Republic.
Ebert, E.E., 2001: Multi-model ensemble forecasts of heavy rain events in Australia. Symposium on Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Reponses, Amer. Met. Soc, Albuquerque, NM, 14-19 January 2001, 332-335.

Ebert, E.E. and J.L. McBride, 2001: Evaluating forecasts of rain events. Symposium on Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Reponses, Amer. Met. Soc, Albuquerque, NM, 14-19 January 2001, 98-101.

Weymouth, G.T., E.E. Ebert, A. E. Guymer and D. Lang, 2001: Rainfall quality control \226 a purpose-built semi-automated, interactive graphical application. 17th Int. Conf. Interactive Information and Processing Systems, Amer. Met. Soc, Albuquerque, NM, 14-19 January 2001.

Ebert, E.E. and J.L. McBride, 2000: Characterising sytematic errors in quantitative precipitation forecasts. 12th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 16-20 October 2000, 53-56.

Ebert, E.E. and J.L. McBride, 2000: Verification of precipitation in weather systems: determination of systematic errors. 7th Natl Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Conference, Melbourne, 7-9 February 2000.

Ebert, E.E., 1999, Improved real-time and near real-time satellite rainfall estimation using adaptive tuning. 2nd Int. Conf. On Water Resources and Environment Research, Brisbane, 6-8 July 1999.

Ebert, E.E., 1999, Combination of gauge and satellite data in daily surface rainfall. Global Precipitation Climatology Program (GPCP) User Workshop, Silver Spring, USA, 10-12 May 1999.