Authors :
Pomaga Raluca 1, *Birsan Marius-Victor 1, Rosca Ghennadii 2, Dabija Tatiana 2
1 Meteo Romania (National Meteorological Administration), Bucharest, Romania
2 State Hydrometeorological Service, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
E-mail  : Corresponding author: marius.birsan@gmail.com
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Abstract
This paper presents a user-friendly application developed for assessing the quality of the meteorological forecasts issued by the Moldavian State Hydrometeorological Service (SHS). The scores are calculated using a method developed at Meteo Romania (National Meteorological Administration), which has been running operationally since 1996. The meteorological elements evaluated in this verification system are: cloud cover, wind speed, fog, glazed frost, hail, frost, minimum and maximum air temperature, as well as the appearance, shape, distribution and intensity of precipitation. The automatic weather forecasting verification system is based on two graphical interfaces, both of them having a specific role in simplifying the user interaction with the database where the information is stored. This work was realized within the World Bank project "Development of a standardized verification mechanism and QMS for the Moldova SHS".
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