Introductory Resources on Forecast Verification

Name (and link, where possible)	Type	Description
Ian T. Jolliffe and D. B. Stephenson, Eds., Forecast Verification: A Practitioner’s Guide in Atmospheric Science, Second Edition. 2012.	Book (edited collection)	Contains several chapters that describe verification metrics for different types of predictand. Aimed at operational forecasters, graduate students and researchers. The early chapters provide a good introduction, but many of the chapters assume a reasonable understanding of probability theory.
WWRP/WGNE Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research, Forecast Verification: Issues, Method and FAQ. 2015: http://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/	Public website	An excellent introduction to verification, which includes a comprehensive description of verification metrics for different types of forecasts. Includes contributions from numerous verification experts and answers to FAQs: http://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/#FAQs
Forecast verification training module hosted by EUMETRAIN, an international training project sponsored by EUMETSAT: http://www.eumetrain.org/data/4/451/english/courses/msgcrs/index.htm	Online training course	An excellent, non-technical, introduction to forecast verification, which contains three completed modules: 1) introduction; 2) verification of continuous variables; and 3) verification of categorical forecasts. A module on verification of probability forecasts remains in production.
Glossary of verification terms, hosted by the Space Weather Prediction Center: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/u30/Forecast%20Verification%20Glossary.pdf	Glossary	Excellent list of common terminology, verification scores, definitions, and equations.
Forecast verification training module from COMET/MetEd: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=453	Online Training Course	A good introduction to techniques in hydrologic forecast verification and an overview of the verification software used by the U.S. National Weather Service Hydrology Program circa 2010.