They interpret and evaluate data gathered from instruments, draw comparisons with computer simulations and theoretical models, and publish the results.

Downtime can consist of sitting under sun-baked skies for hours, playing pickup sports, evaluating data, or visiting landmarks whilst awaiting convective initiation.

The evaluated data added more importance to this year's evaluation by dividing the assessment into four main parts and 57 indexes.

It consists of three classes of conformance: one for quality evaluation, one for evaluating data quality and on for reporting quality information.