da 22.-31.3. 2006 surface analysis (i) m. drusch room tt 063, phone 2759
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Surface Analysis (I)
M. Drusch
Room TT 063, Phone 2759
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Outline
1. Sea Surface Temperature (SST)2. Sea Ice3. Snow
1. 2 m Relative Humidity and Temperature2. Soil Moisture
Part 1:
Part 2:
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Overview
1. Sea Surface Temperature (SST)- Reynolds SST- lake SST
2. Sea Ice
3. Snow- observation types- operational Cressman analysis- revision based on satellite derived snow extent- analyses’ validation against independent satellite
and in-situ observations- impact on the forecast
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SST (1)The SST analysis is produced by NCEP / MMAB:- daily data set- two dimensional variational interpolation - buoy and ship observations, satellite retrieved SST
Analysis steps:1) Satellite retrieved SST values are averaged within 0.5º grid boxes2) Bias calculation and removal for satellite retrieved SST3) SST from ships and buoys are separately averaged4) The first guess is the prior analysis with one day’s climate adjustment added.5) Where fractional sea ice cover exceeds 50%, surface temperature is
calculated from Millero’s formula for the freezing point of water:
with s the salinity in psu.6) Empirical autocorrelation function has the form:
with d and l in km, grad T K/km
22
3
0002.00017.00575.0)( ssssSST
)/exp( 22 ld
))100,/25.2max(,450min( gradTl
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SST (2)
80°S80°S
70°S 70°S
60°S60°S
50°S 50°S
40°S40°S
30°S 30°S
20°S20°S
10°S 10°S
0°0°
10°N 10°N
20°N20°N
30°N 30°N
40°N40°N
50°N 50°N
60°N60°N
70°N 70°N
80°N80°N
160°W
160°W 140°W
140°W 120°W
120°W 100°W
100°W 80°W
80°W 60°W
60°W 40°W
40°W 20°W
20°W 0°
0° 20°E
20°E 40°E
40°E 60°E
60°E 80°E
80°E 100°E
100°E 120°E
120°E 140°E
140°E 160°E
160°E
ECMWF Analysis VT:Thursday 1 January 2004 12UTC Surface:
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Future changes to the Integrated Forecast System: •NCEP / MMAB high resolution analysis (1/12 degree)•GODAE High Resolution SST data sets
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Lake SST (1)
22 non analysed lakes at T319 resolution, Great Lakes and Caspian Seaare included in the NCEP analysis
Current analysis method was developed using:
• 18,000 observations of mean monthly surface air temperature compiled by Legates and Wilmott (1990)
• ERA15 monthly mean SST based on satellite and in-situ observations (NCEP data set) for the Great Lakes and the Caspian Sea
• Lake temperatures for 4 African Lakes from Spigel and Coulter (1996)
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Lake SST (2)
SST Lake(t) = T2m(t-1)
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Sea Ice (1)
Based on SSM/I (Special Sensor microwave / Imager) antenna temperatures.
1. Remapping from scan points to a polar stereographic grid (25km true at 60)2. Conversion to brightness temperatures (Hollinger et al., 1987).3. Weather filter following Gloersen and Cavalieri (1986).4. Sea ice concentration algorithm (Cavalieri et al., 1991).5. Polar gap filling.6. Quality check (100 % maximum ice cover).7. Final filtering based on Reynolds SST (no ice if SST > 2º C).
NCEP’s algorithm (Grumbine, 1996):
ECMWF post-processing:
1. Resampling to model grid using a spatial interpolation (Cressman Analysis).
2. Final quality check.
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Sea Ice (2)Sea ice fraction algorithm (Cavalieri et al., 1991)
ocean tie point
multi year sea ice tie point
first year sea ice tie pointSSM/I
channelopenwater
first year sea ice
multi-year sea
ice
19 H 100.8 242.8 203.9
19 V 177.1 258.2 223.2
37 V 201.7 252.8 186.3
2. Northern Hemisphere tie points
HVVV
HVHV
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TTTTPR
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1. Calculate polarization ratio &
spectral gradient ratio
MFT
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DGRPRbGRbPRbbC
DGRPRaGRaPRaaC
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/3. Calculate fractional sea ice coverage
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Sea Ice (3)
(hhtp://polar.wwb.noaa.gov/seaice)
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Snow Analysis
Definitions - snow extent (binary information 1/0)- fractional snow cover (0 – 100 %) - snow depth SD (m)
- snow water equivalent (SWE)
Observation types - in situ measurements (snow depth and SWE) - remote sensing microwaves (SWE)
- remote sensing visible & infrared (snow extent, aggregation gives fractional snow coverage)
1000SSD
SWE
[m]
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Cressman Analysis (I)
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1. Cressman spatial interpolation:
with: - SO snow depth from synop reports, - Sb background field estimated from the short-range forecast of snow water equivalent,- Sb‘ background field at observation location, and - wn weight function, which is a function of horizontal distance r and vertical displacement h (model – obs): w = H(r) v(h) with:
,0rr
rrmaxH(r)
22max
22max
2h2maxh
2h2maxh
1 if 0 < h
0 if h < - hmax
if – hmax < h < 0v(h) =
rmax = 250 km
hmax = 300 m
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Cressman Analysis (II)
2. Quality check for every grid point
3. Final analysis using climatological values
cliaa SSS 1(
with: - Scli snow depth from climate data set (Foster and Davy 1988), - relaxation coefficient of 0.02
- If Tb2m < 8 C only snow depth observations below 140 cm are accepted.
- If Tb2m > 8 C only snow depth observations below 70 cm are accepted.
- Observations which differ by more than 50 cm from the background are rejected.
- When only one observation is available within rmax, the snow depth increments are set to 0.
- Snow-depth analysis is limited to 140 cm.
- Snow-depth increments are set to 0 when larger than (160-16Tb2m) mm, where Tb
sm is in C.
- Snow-depth analysis is set to 0 if below 0.04 cm- If there is no snow in the background and in more than half of the observations within a
circle of radius rmax, the snow depth increment is kept to 0.
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NOAA / NESDIS Snow Extent
Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System:- time sequenced imagery from geostationary satellites,- AVHRR, - SSM/I, - station data, - previous day‘s analysis
Northern Hemisphere product- real time- polar stereographic projection- 1024 × 1024 elements
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• sun-synchronous, circular, near polar orbit
• snow detection based on:Bands 1 (620-670 nm) and 2 (841-876 nm) for NDVI and Bands 4 (545-565 nm) and 6 (1628-1652 nm) for NDSI
• snow present if NDSI > 0.4 and reflectance Band 2 > 11%
• forested areas: canopy reflectance model is used to create NDVI – NDSIpolygon
• mapped to 500 m resolution with 40 % minimum snow cover
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MODIS Fractional Snow Cover (II)
Daily L3 Global 0.05 Deg CMG Products: Frac. Snow Cover := snow covered pixels / visible land pixels Confidence Index := visible land pixels / total land cover Cloud mask
Regridding to 0.5 Deg: - SC = FSC × CI for pixels labeled ‚snow covered‘ - SC = FSC + (1. – CI) for pixels labeled ,snow free‘ - SC = 1/N SC
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Motivation for a Revised Analysis (I)
MODIS snow extent 17.-24.1.2002
by NSIDCby NSIDC
MODIS vis image 27.10.2002
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Motivation (II)
MODIS 16/02/2002
SWE [cm]
operational analysis
40°N
50°N
60°N
70°N
20°W
20°W
0°
0°
20°E
20°E 40°E
40°E
60°E
60°E
ECMWF Analysis VT:Saturday 16 February 2002 12UTC Surface: snow depth
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Motivation for a Revised Analysis (III)
March 2002 May 2002
December 2002
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General Comments on the Revision
NOAA NESDIS satellite data contain no information on snow depth. The parameters for the spatial interpolation and quality checks were developed for T106, they are not ideal for higher resolutions.
Satellite data outnumber conventional observations at the snow edges.
It is difficult to obtain independent observations and to compare observations with the analyses.
Satellite derived snow extent has been available for ~ 20 years. It has not beenintegrated in any operational analysis ( & there are no papers on combining satellite data, ground based observations and modelled snow depth).
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Revision of the Global Snow Depth Analysis using NESDIS snow extent
1) Comparison between first guess and NESDIS: - NESDIS is interpolated to actual model resolution
- fractional snow cover is calculated - snow free f.g. boxes are updated with 10 cm of snow where the NESDIS product has 100% snow cover
2) Cressman Analysis - NESDIS snow free grid boxes are used as observations with
0 cm snow depth. - Observation height is calculated from high resolution ‚ECMWF‘
orography on the corresponding polarstereographic grid. - Climatology is switched off.
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Technical implementation
NOAA NESDIS snow extent: snow present
NOAA NESDIS snow extent: no snow
first guess updated with previous increments
00 UTC 12 UTC
6 hour forecast(first guess)
12 hour forecast(first guess)
SYNOP observations SYNOP observations
06 UTC
Cressman analysis /quality check
(& climatology)
Cressman analysis /quality check
(& climatology)
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6-h cycling in 12 hour 4DVarSWE [cm]
SWE [cm]
SWE [cm]
SWE [cm]
00 UTC 06 UTC
18 UTC12 UTC
first guess:12 hour fc
first guess:6 hour fcobservations
first guess:12 hour fc &update with previous analysisincrements &satellite data
first guess:6 hour fc
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Research Experiments• November 2003 to May 2004 (Cycle 28R1)• March, May and December 2002 (Cycle 26R3)• Satellite Data ingestion at 12:00 UTC / CTRL
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing CenterAnalysis (SNODAS) • November 2003 to May 2004• 1km, re-sampled to T511 reduced Gaussian grid
MODIS snow extent• March, May, and December 2002• 0.05 deg CMG, re-sampled to 0.5 deg
Canadian Met Service daily observations• March, May, December 2002• Heidke Skill Score (2 class contingency table: snow / no snow)
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SWE [cm]
SWE [cm]
NESDIS Snow Cover [%]
MODIS
operational
revised
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MODIS ComparisonMarch 2002 May 2002
operational
revised
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Metarstation meteorological obs
Rapid Update Cycle (RUC2)NWP analyses / forecasts
NCEP stage IV radarprecipitation analysis
NESDIS GOESsolar radiation
NOAA GOES AVHRRcloud cover albedo
physicaldownscaling
automatic quality control
snowmodel
static geophysicaldata
NRCS SNOTELsnow water equivalent
CADWR & BC Hydrosnow water equivalent
NWS / Cooperative Observersnow water equivalent, snow depth
automaticquality control
NOHRSCAirborne Gamma
SWE
NOHRSCGOES / AVHRR
snow cover
[after Carrol et al., 2001]
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NOHRSC (II): Technical implementation and analysis scheme
1. 24 hour model run at 1 hour time steps
2. Snow observations are sampled during the last 18 hours.
3. Satellite data is used to identify snow boundaries.
4. Differences between modelled values and observations are computed andspatially interpolated.
5. Difference fields are analyzed MANUALLY to identify regions to update.
6. Difference fields are divided by 6 to provide hourly increments for the final6 hourly model run.
7. The model is re-run for 6 hours, at the the end of each time step estimated state variables (snow depth, SWE, and snow pack temperature) are nudged.
[after Carrol et al. 2001]
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Snow Depth Analyses for 2/12/2002
NWS National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
Operational Revised
NESDIS
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SNODAS intercomparison
40°N
120°W
120°W
100°W
100°W
80°W
80°W
ECMWF Analy sis VT:Sunday 30 Nov ember 2003 06UTC Surf ace: snow depth
0.0001 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 10.00
40°N
120°W
120°W
100°W
100°W
80°W
80°W
ECMWF Analy sis VT:Sunday 30 Nov ember 2003 06UTC Surf ace: snow depth
0.0001 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 10.00
40°N
120°W
120°W
100°W
100°W
80°W
80°W
ECMWF Analy sis VT:Sunday 30 Nov ember 2003 06UTC Surf ace: snow depth
0.0001 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 10.00
40°N
120°W
120°W
100°W
100°W
80°W
80°W
ECMWF Analy sis VT:Sunday 30 Nov ember 2003 12UTC Surf ace: snow depth
0.0001 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 10.00
SNODAS 30/11/04, 6 UTC CTRL 30/11/04, 6 UTC
EXP 30/11/04, 12 UTCEXP 30/11/04, 06 UTC
SWE [m]
SWE [m]
SWE [m]
SWE [m]
0.0001 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8
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SNODAS snow extent
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040.0
0.2
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0.6
0.8
1.0
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ext
ent
US
CTRLEXPSNODAS
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
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snow
ext
ent
West
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
snow
ext
ent
Central
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
snow
ext
ent
East
(-124° W to -105° W)
(-80° W to -60° W)(-105° W to -80° W)
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SNODAS mean SWE
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040
10
20
30
40
50m
ean
SW
E [m
m]
US
CTRLEXPSNODAS
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040
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n S
WE
[mm
]
West
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040
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WE
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Central
01/11/03 01/12/03 01/01/04 01/02/040
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WE
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East
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Impact on the forecast
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Forecast Day
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DATE1=20031107/... DATE2=20031107/...
AREA=N.HEM TIME=12 MEAN OVER 144 CASES
ANOMALY CORRELATION FORECAST
500 hPa GEOPOTENTIAL
FORECAST VERIFICATION
CNTL
EICE
MAGICS 6.9 metis - dar Thu Oct 21 16:10:30 2004 Verify SCOCOM
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Fractional snow coverage
SWE [mm]
Fra
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now
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SWE [mm]
Fra
ctio
nal s
now
cov
erSNODASat T511
30/11/03 31/1/04
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Natural hazard / severe storm application
‘A surprise storm buried sections of Colorado with as much as 61 centimetersof snow on April 10, 2005. According to the Associated Press, the spring stormcancelled flights and closed a major interstate highway, stranding travellers. TheMODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of the fresh snow onApril 12, 2005. … Denver, the capital of Colorado, forms a dark circle in the snownear the base of the mountains. The city reported 30 cm of snow.’
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Natural hazard / severe storm application
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38°N38°N
39°N 39°N
40°N40°N
108°W
108°W 107°W
107°W 106°W
106°W 105°W
105°W 104°W
104°W 103°W
103°W
ECMWF Analysis VT:Monday 11 April 2005 12UTC Surface: snow depth
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38°N38°N
39°N 39°N
40°N40°N
108°W
108°W 107°W
107°W 106°W
106°W 105°W
105°W 104°W
104°W 103°W
103°W
ECMWF Analysis VT:Tuesday 12 April 2005 12UTC Surface: snow depth
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Summary
• Climatology can be omitted.
• The revised analysis using the satellite product results in an improved snow extent compared to MODIS.
• Higher skill scores for March, December and the first half of May compared to CMS observations (lower skill for the end of May). [not shown]
• Improved snow extent compared to SNODAS (US domain).
• In general, ECMWF analyses systematically ‘underestimate’ SWE in the western part of the US.
• The impact on the forecast is neutral with respect to 1000 and 850 hPa temperatures.
• The satellite product is not free of errors and can deteriorate the analyses on regional scales.