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The impact of targeted observations from 2011 Winter Storms Reconnaissance on
deterministic forecast accuracy
Tom HamillNOAA Earth System Research Lab, Physical Sciences Division
also: Fanglin Yang, Carla Cardinali, Sharanya Majumdarcontact: [email protected]
NOAA Earth SystemResearch Laboratory
presentation at AMS Annual Conference 2013, Austin, TX
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Previously (~10 years ago) there were many optimistic assessments on the impact of mid-
latitude targeted observations
From Langland et al. July 1999BAMS article on NORPEX-98 expt.
Example: results from 1998. Over manycases, where either extra cloud-driftwind measurements or dropsondedata were assimilated in pre-definedsensitive regions, there was a reductionin error in the target verification area.
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Targeted observation concept
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Will mid-latitude dropwindsonde targeting have the same effect in the 2010’s?
• More observations, especially satellite, so fewer “gaps” in the global observing system.
• Better models.• Better data assimilation systems.
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ECMWF: conventional observations used
MSL Pressure, 10m-wind, 2m-Rel.Hum. DRIBU: MSL Pressure, Wind-10m
Wind, Temperature, Spec. Humidity PILOT/Profilers: Wind
Aircraft: Wind, Temperature
SYNOP/METAR/SHIP:
Radiosonde balloons (TEMP):
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Satellite data sources used in the operational ECMWF analysis
Geostationary, 4 IR and 5 winds
5 imagers: 3xSSM/I, AMSR-E, TMI
4 ozone
13 Sounders: NOAA AMSU-A/B, HIRS, AIRS, IASI, MHS
2 Polar, winds: MODIS
3 Scatterometer sea winds: ERS, ASCAT, QuikSCAT
6 GPS radio occultation
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…though it’s probably more the improved assimilation techniques and models that have improved skill.
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Are targeted observationsstill valuable enough to merit expensive plane flights
(and staff time to run targeted observation program)?
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NOAA’s Winter Storms Reconnaissance Program
• Each winter day, NOAA forecasters ID systems that may impact US during the next week.
• Forecasters consider automated guidance (ensemble transform Kalman filter, or “ETKF”) to identify regions of longer-range forecast uncertainty and what uncertainty in earlier forecast features were primarily responsible.
• Examine ETKF’s estimates of potential reduction of analysis/forecast errors were observations taken in a given constellation.
• Determine approximately optimal flight path to reduce analysis errors the most.
• Assign subjective importance to case (low/med/high), determine a target verification region where high-impact forecasts are expected, and suggest reconnaissance mission to pilots.
• Pilots fly the mission and take targeted observations (typically dropwindsondes).
• Extra observations are assimilated alongside the normal observations.
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What hasn’t been done over the past decade.
• Parallel assimilations and forecasts, with and without the targeted observations, using …
• A modern data assimilation method (e.g., 4D-Var, ensemble Kalman filter, or hybrid), and …
• A modern generation, higher-resolution global forecast model.
• A systematic comparison of forecast errors with and without targeted observations.
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2011 WSR Impact Study• 22 high, 62 medium, 14 low-priority cases, and 776
dropwindsondes deployed.• Target verification times from +12 to +120 h.
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Impact study design
• Assimilate with ECMWF 4D-Var (version 37r2 of IFS; T511L91 outer loop, linearized T159, T159, and T255 inner loops).
• Parallel assimilation and forecast cycles without (“NODROP”) and with (“CONTROL”).
• Deterministic forecasts to +5 days lead, T511L91• Verification in ~ total energy norm in 20x20-degree
target verification region, and over PNA region. Verification against CONTROL analysis.
• Also: verification of precipitation forecasts over CONUS.
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(Approximate) total-energy norm
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Results over target verification region
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Results over broader PNA region
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24-48 h precipitation forecast skill
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+48-72 h precipitation forecast skill
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Conclusions
• No significant positive forecast impact from assimilation of 2011 WSR data in ECMWF system.
• Possible reasons:– Incomplete targeting of sometime relatively large initial
sensitive regions.– Better forecast and assimilation systems.– More observations
• What next?– Targeted observations more focused on increased use of
satellite data (cloud-drift winds, radiances, etc.).
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Significant increase in number of observations assimilated
Conventional and satellite data assimilated at ECMWF 1996-2010
from tinyurl.com/ecmwf-satreport