A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of Assimilating Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products on NCEP Global Forecast System

Figure 8

Precipitation equitable threat scores (left) and bias scores of the GFS forecast from 60 h to 84 h over the CONUS for CTL (black) and EnKF (red), as temporally averaged over the period of 2 April to 5 May 2012. The black numbers denote number of observation stations, and the lower panels indicate their differences with the Monte Carlo significance tests. The differences outside of the hollow bars attain the 95% confidence level based on 10,000 Monte Carlo tests.