I’ve retargeted the introduction at situational awareness (or at least made this more clear) and combined some rules. It might be helpful at this point to take a step back and have people suggest sets of rules that we think are important. We can then synthesis with what we already have, order, and expand on the detail? I will circle back around tomorrow to give my list.
Some things I think that are key to keep in mind are:
- We are aiming at those producing situational estimates (so short-term forecasts, nowcasts, and hindcasts) to be used by decision makers
- We are not (or not solely) aiming at those actually building the tools but also those using them as this is a much larger category.
- There are likely differences in different contexts. We should watch out for these in our discussions/exchanges and try and highlight them as they are likely valuable.
- We can have rules that are specific to nowcasts/forecasts/hindcasts but we need to make this clear somewhere early on or it could be very confusing.
- I think some kind of ordering is really key. I really like @jrcpulliam suggestion of doing this based around how the process works as it seems like quite a natural way for the information to be used.