Bias Correction of Satellite Data in GRAPES-VAR

Size: px
Start display at page:

Download "Bias Correction of Satellite Data in GRAPES-VAR"

Transcription

1 Bias Correction of Satellite Data in GRAPES-VAR Wei Han Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, CMA ITSC15, , Italy

2 Outline Status of GRAPES-3DVAR Main components of GRAPES Usage of satellite data in GRAPES-Var Improvement of satellite data assimilation Bias Correction Error Tuning Impact on Analysis and Forecast Global Model Typhoon Forecast Discussions and Ongoing Work Developed Different Observation Operators Monitoring the Innovations And Tuning Parameters Impact

3 Main components of Chinese new generation NWP system Global/ Regional Assimilation and Prediction System GRAPES- Var GAPRES- Global GRAPES- Meso

4 Data usage of GRAPES-Var TEMP Conventional data SYNOP SHIPS AIREP ATOVS Assimilated directly Remote sensing data AMV Weather Radars

5 ATOVSFrom Regional to Global Since Oct Global l1b data from NOAA/NESDIS Local received HRPT data from NSMC PREPROC ATOVS Level 1C data ATOVS Level 1D data Typhoons Origin NOAA16/17 AMSUB CH (-3h~3h)Local received NOAA16/17 AMSUB CH (-3h~3h)From NESDIS

6 Satellite Data Assimilated In GRAPES in Nov xAMSU-B (NOAA-16/17) Winds from 5 GEOS (Met-5/7 GOES-9/10/12) OAA16/17 AMSUB GTS AMVs OAA15/16 AMSUA 2xAMSU-A (NOAA-15/16) FY2C AMVs Winds from FY2C

7 Preprocessing of Satellite Data in GRAPES-Var Quality control ( by NSMC ) Thinning Error Correlation (Not represented in the obs. covariance ) To reduce data volume Observational error Assignment Statistics of the Innovations Tuning of the Error Setting Bias correction Global Model Regional Model

8 Bias Correction Scheme in Practice: Harris and Kelly(2001) s scheme Scan Bias s=<d j (θ)-d j (θ=0)> Air Mass Bias : b=h(x b )-y-s Least Square p (predictors)b : Air Mass Bias Solution b = Ap + T T 1 c A= bp (pp ) c = b Ap Predictors: Scan Bias Latitude Band Average Air Mass Bias Thickness between hPa Thickness between hPa Surface temperatures Integrated water vapor

9 AMSUA Bias : H(xb)-Yo Ch5-Ch10:Cold Bias of Obs. Ch1-Ch4 and Ch11-Ch15: Warm Bias of Obs.

10 Estimation of std. of AMSUA Error

11 AMSUB Bias of H(xb)-Yo Bias Std. NOAA16 NOAA17

12 Tuning of Obs. Error Step1: Tuning of Obs. Error based on Innovation Statistics ε, ε, K, ε, K, ε o o o o sound synop amsu type N Step2: Tuning of Different Observations o o J( α) = J( ε, αε ) J = sound amsu p 2

13 Noaa16 AMSUA

14 AMSUB NOAA16 NOAA

15 Impact of Bias Correction On Analysis Increments On Forecast Global Model Verification against its own analysis(15 days) ACC: Anomaly Correlation Coefficient Typhoon Track Forecast Regional Model

16 dxa: T, q Average of days Ananlysis Increments

17 dxa: T, q Average of days 500hpa

18 500mb ACC ( ,144h Forecast) N-90N,0-360,500hPa BC Ctrl NoBC S-90N,0-360,500hPa BC Ctrl NoBC Anomaly Corr Anomaly Corr Forecast Day Forecast Day ctrl NoBC BC ctrl NoBC BC

19 dxa: T, q Average of days Ananlysis Increments

20 200hpa Analysis Increments

21 Bias Correction For Assimilation of ATOVS in GRAPES: Impact on Typhoon Forecast Global Model (One Case: MATSA) Regional Model (One Case: RANANIM)

22 GRAPES Global Model: (UTC),120h Forecast Different Initial Value only N: NCEP Analysis G: GTS S: GTS+AMSU+BC O: Obs.

23 Animation of 700hpa humidity 144h Forecast GRAPES Global Model with Assimlation of AMSU+BC

24 NOAA16:AMSUA-ch5, warm core

25 Ch5,6,7,8 Innovation of AMSUA(NOAA16) Ch5-Ch8 Ch5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch8

26 Ch5,6,7,8 After Q.C. Without B.C Ch5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch8

27 Ch5,6,7,8 After Q.C. With B.C Ch5 Ch6 Ch7 Ch8

28 Distribution of innovation of effective obs. Dashed line: without B.C Solid Line : with B.C. After Q.C.

29 H(xa)-Yo Residual Ch5 Ch6 Ch Ch8 Ch9 Ch10

30 RANANIM:0414 AMSU+BC No AMSU ,UTC AMSU

31 Precip. Forecast Durinig Rananim Landfall,24h Obs. 14Z13AUG2004 Forecast Arrows: 10m Wind Vectors Shaded6-hour Accumulated Rainfall

32 Precip. Forecast Durinig Rananim Landfall, 30h Obs. 20Z13AUG2004 Forecast Arrows: 10m Wind Vectors Shaded6-hour Accumulated Rainfall

33 Discussion GRAPES-3DVAR is Moving to a New Stage Operational implementation Refinement Bias Correction and Obs. Error Tuning VERY Important Preliminary results is promising Need More Work Positive Impact of Satellite Data Assimilation Global Medium Forecast Typhoon Forecasts Other Verifications is Ongoing(Precip.,etc.) Developed Different Observation Operators Monitoring the Innovations And Tuning Parameters

34 Ongoing Work Thinning( Resolution of Obs., Analysis and Model) Global Model Regional and Mesoscale Model Constant Distance Thinning Bias Correction Predictors Parameter Estimation Method Bias Model Treatment of Coast (No Options in RTTOV) Observation Error Setting and Online Tuning Interaction with Q.C. Diagnosis of E(Jmin)=p/2 (Talagrand,1999; Chapnik,2006)

35 Thank you for Attention

Development of 3D Variational Assimilation System for ATOVS Data in China

Development of 3D Variational Assimilation System for ATOVS Data in China Development of 3D Variational Assimilation System for ATOVS Data in China Xue Jishan, Zhang Hua, Zhu Guofu, Zhuang Shiyu 1) Zhang Wenjian, Liu Zhiquan, Wu Xuebao, Zhang Fenyin. 2) 1) Chinese Academy of

More information

ASSIMILATION OF ATOVS RETRIEVALS AND AMSU-A RADIANCES AT THE ITALIAN WEATHER SERVICE: CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES

ASSIMILATION OF ATOVS RETRIEVALS AND AMSU-A RADIANCES AT THE ITALIAN WEATHER SERVICE: CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES ASSIMILATION OF ATOVS RETRIEVALS AND AMSU-A RADIANCES AT THE ITALIAN WEATHER SERVICE: CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES Massimo Bonavita, Lucio Torrisi and Antonio Vocino CNMCA, Italian Meteorological Service

More information

Ninth Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems. Timeliness and Impact of Observations in the CMC Global NWP system

Ninth Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems. Timeliness and Impact of Observations in the CMC Global NWP system Ninth Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom 10 14 November 2003 Timeliness and Impact of Observations in the CMC Global NWP system Réal Sarrazin, Yulia Zaitseva

More information

Assimilation of Geostationary WV Radiances within the 4DVAR at ECMWF

Assimilation of Geostationary WV Radiances within the 4DVAR at ECMWF Assimilation of Geostationary WV Radiances within the 4DVAR at ECMWF Christina Köpken Graeme Kelly, Jean-Noël Thépaut ECMWF EUMETSAT Fellowship ITSC-XII Lorne, Australia, 27 February - 5 March 2002 Assimilation

More information

The Use of ATOVS Microwave Data in the Grapes-3Dvar System

The Use of ATOVS Microwave Data in the Grapes-3Dvar System The Use of ATOVS Microwave Data in the Grapes-3Dvar System Peiming Dong 1 Zhiquan Liu 2 Jishan Xue 1 Guofu Zhu 1 Shiyu Zhuang 1 Yan Liu 1 1 Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China 2

More information

Assimilation of the IASI data in the HARMONIE data assimilation system

Assimilation of the IASI data in the HARMONIE data assimilation system Assimilation of the IASI data in the HARMONIE data assimilation system Roger Randriamampianina Acknowledgement: Andrea Storto (met.no), Andrew Collard (ECMWF), Fiona Hilton (MetOffice) and Vincent Guidard

More information

Status and Plans of using the scatterometer winds in JMA's Data Assimilation and Forecast System

Status and Plans of using the scatterometer winds in JMA's Data Assimilation and Forecast System Status and Plans of using the scatterometer winds in 's Data Assimilation and Forecast System Masaya Takahashi¹ and Yoshihiko Tahara² 1- Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency () 2-

More information

On the use of bias correction method and full grid AMSU-B data in a limited area model

On the use of bias correction method and full grid AMSU-B data in a limited area model On the use of bias correction method and full grid AMSU-B data in a limited area model Roger RANDRIAMAMPIANINA (1), Regina SZOTÁK (1) and Élisabeth GÉRARD (2) 1-Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest,

More information

Assimilation of SEVIRI data II

Assimilation of SEVIRI data II Assimilation of SEVIRI data II report from LACE stay in Budapest, 23/1/07-17/2/07 Scientific supervisors: Roger Randriamampianina Gergely Bölöni Alena Trojáková Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Na Šabatce

More information

Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in the JMA Data Assimilation System

Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in the JMA Data Assimilation System Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds in the Data Assimilation System Masaya Takahashi Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency () International Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Meeting,

More information

OSSE to infer the impact of Arctic AMVs extracted from highly elliptical orbit imagery

OSSE to infer the impact of Arctic AMVs extracted from highly elliptical orbit imagery OSSE to infer the impact of Arctic AMVs extracted from highly elliptical orbit imagery L. Garand 1 Y. Rochon 1, S. Heilliette 1, J. Feng 1, A.P. Trishchenko 2 1 Environment Canada, 2 Canada Center for

More information

Use of ATOVS raw radiances in the operational assimilation system at Météo-France

Use of ATOVS raw radiances in the operational assimilation system at Météo-France Use of ATOVS raw radiances in the operational assimilation system at Météo-France Élisabeth Gérard, Florence Rabier, Delphine Lacroix Météo-France, Toulouse, France Zahra Sahlaoui Maroc-Météo, Casablanca,

More information

Data impact studies in the global NWP model at Meteo-France

Data impact studies in the global NWP model at Meteo-France Data impact studies in the global NWP model at Meteo-France Patrick Moll, Fatima Karbou, Claudia Faccani, Nathalie Saint- Ramond, Florence Rabier Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques CNRS/GAME,

More information

Use of satellite radiances in the global assimilation system at JMA

Use of satellite radiances in the global assimilation system at JMA Use of satellite radiances in the global assimilation system at JMA Kozo Okamoto, Hiromi Owada, Yoshiaki Sato, Toshiyuki Ishibashi Japan Meteorological Agency ITSC-XV: Maratea, Italy, 4-10 October 2006

More information

Bias correction of satellite data at Météo-France

Bias correction of satellite data at Météo-France Bias correction of satellite data at Météo-France É. Gérard, F. Rabier, D. Lacroix, P. Moll, T. Montmerle, P. Poli CNRM/GMAP 42 Avenue Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France 1. Introduction Bias correction at

More information

Data Impact Studies in the CMC Global NWP system

Data Impact Studies in the CMC Global NWP system Third WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on WP Alpbach, Austria 9 12 March 2004 Data Impact Studies in the CMC Global WP system Gilles Verner, Réal Sarrazin and Yulia Zaitseva Canadian

More information

Observing System Impact Studies in ACCESS

Observing System Impact Studies in ACCESS Observing System Impact Studies in ACCESS www.cawcr.gov.au Chris Tingwell, Peter Steinle, John le Marshall, Elaine Miles, Yi Xiao, Rolf Seecamp, Jin Lee, Susan Rennie, Xingbao Wang, Justin Peter, Alan

More information

Assimilating only surface pressure observations in 3D and 4DVAR

Assimilating only surface pressure observations in 3D and 4DVAR Assimilating only surface pressure observations in 3D and 4DVAR (and other observing system impact studies) Jean-Noël Thépaut ECMWF Acknowledgements: Graeme Kelly Workshop on atmospheric reanalysis, 19

More information

Use and impact of satellite data in the NZLAM mesoscale model for the New Zealand region

Use and impact of satellite data in the NZLAM mesoscale model for the New Zealand region Use and impact of satellite data in the NZLAM mesoscale model for the New Zealand region V. Sherlock, P. Andrews, H. Oliver, A. Korpela and M. Uddstrom National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research,

More information

Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office

Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office Nigel Atkinson, James Cameron, Brett Candy and Steve English ECMWF/EUMETSAT NWP-SAF Workshop on Bias estimation and correction in data assimilation,

More information

The Impact of Observational data on Numerical Weather Prediction. Hirokatsu Onoda Numerical Prediction Division, JMA

The Impact of Observational data on Numerical Weather Prediction. Hirokatsu Onoda Numerical Prediction Division, JMA The Impact of Observational data on Numerical Weather Prediction Hirokatsu Onoda Numerical Prediction Division, JMA Outline Data Analysis system of JMA in Global Spectral Model (GSM) and Meso-Scale Model

More information

Assimilation of Himawari-8 Atmospheric Motion Vectors into the Numerical Weather Prediction Systems of Japan Meteorological Agency

Assimilation of Himawari-8 Atmospheric Motion Vectors into the Numerical Weather Prediction Systems of Japan Meteorological Agency Assimilation of Himawari-8 Atmospheric Motion Vectors into the Numerical Weather Prediction Systems of Japan Meteorological Agency Koji Yamashita Japan Meteorological Agency kobo.yamashita@met.kishou.go.jp,

More information

Assessment of AHI Level-1 Data for HWRF Assimilation

Assessment of AHI Level-1 Data for HWRF Assimilation Assessment of AHI Level-1 Data for HWRF Assimilation Xiaolei Zou 1 and Fuzhong Weng 2 1 Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 2 Satellite Meteorology

More information

SATELLITE DATA IMPACT STUDIES AT ECMWF

SATELLITE DATA IMPACT STUDIES AT ECMWF SATELLITE DATA IMPACT STUDIES AT ECMWF Outline of talk 1. Impact of early sounders (past and in reanalysis) 2. Problems with satellite retrievals 3. Direct use of radiances 4. Impact experiments with ERA

More information

Effect of Predictor Choice on the AIRS Bias Correction at the Met Office

Effect of Predictor Choice on the AIRS Bias Correction at the Met Office Effect of Predictor Choice on the AIRS Bias Correction at the Met Office Brett Harris Bureau of Meterorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia James Cameron, Andrew Collard and Roger Saunders, Met

More information

Estimation of satellite observations bias correction for limited area model

Estimation of satellite observations bias correction for limited area model Estimation of satellite observations bias correction for limited area model Roger Randriamampianina Hungarian Meteorological Service Budapest, Hungary roger@met.hu ITSC-XV, Maratea,, Italy, 4-104 October

More information

Upgraded usage of MODIS-derived polar winds in the JMA operational global 4D-Var assimilation system

Upgraded usage of MODIS-derived polar winds in the JMA operational global 4D-Var assimilation system 1 Upgraded usage of MODIS-derived polar winds in the JMA operational global 4D-Var assimilation system Koji Yamashita Japan Meteorological Agency Kobo.yamashita@met.kishou.go.jp Background Objectives 2

More information

5.3 TESTING AND EVALUATION OF THE GSI DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM

5.3 TESTING AND EVALUATION OF THE GSI DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM 5.3 TESTING AND EVALUATION OF THE GSI DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM Kathryn M Newman*, C. Zhou, H. Shao, X.Y. Huang, M. Hu National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO Developmental Testbed Center

More information

Impact of ATOVS data in a mesoscale assimilationforecast system over the Indian region

Impact of ATOVS data in a mesoscale assimilationforecast system over the Indian region Impact of ATOVS data in a mesoscale assimilationforecast system over the Indian region John P. George and Munmun Das Gupta National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Department of Science &

More information

Doppler radial wind spatially correlated observation error: operational implementation and initial results

Doppler radial wind spatially correlated observation error: operational implementation and initial results Doppler radial wind spatially correlated observation error: operational implementation and initial results D. Simonin, J. Waller, G. Kelly, S. Ballard,, S. Dance, N. Nichols (Met Office, University of

More information

Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds at JMA

Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds at JMA Operational Use of Scatterometer Winds at JMA Masaya Takahashi Numerical Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) 10 th International Winds Workshop, Tokyo, 26 February 2010 JMA Outline JMA

More information

ALADIN-HARMONIE/Norway and its assimilation system

ALADIN-HARMONIE/Norway and its assimilation system ALADIN-HARMONIE/Norway and its assimilation system Roger Randriamampianina and Andrea Storto Acknowledgement: Alena Trojáková, Gergely Bölöni, Sándor Kertész, Andrew Collard, Lars Isaksen, Elisabeth Gérard,

More information

Radiance Data Assimilation with an EnKF

Radiance Data Assimilation with an EnKF Radiance Data Assimilation with an EnKF Zhiquan Liu, Craig Schwartz, Xiangyu Huang (NCAR/MMM) Yongsheng Chen (York University) 4/7/2010 4th EnKF Workshop 1 Outline Radiance Assimilation Methodology Apply

More information

Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA. Tellus Applied Sciences, Inc.

Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA. Tellus Applied Sciences, Inc. Nancy Baker 1, Rolf Langland 1, Pat Pauley 1, Liang Xu 1 Dagmar Merkova 2,3 and Ron Gelaro 2 Chris Velden 4 1 Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA 2 Global Modeling and

More information

Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction II

Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction II Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction II Niels Bormann European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) (with contributions from Tony McNally, Jean-Noël Thépaut, Slide

More information

Rosemary Munro*, Graeme Kelly, Michael Rohn* and Roger Saunders

Rosemary Munro*, Graeme Kelly, Michael Rohn* and Roger Saunders ASSIMILATION OF METEOSAT RADIANCE DATA WITHIN THE 4DVAR SYSTEM AT ECMWF Rosemary Munro*, Graeme Kelly, Michael Rohn* and Roger Saunders European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Shinfield Park,

More information

Satellite Soil Moisture Content Data Assimilation in Operational Local NWP System at JMA

Satellite Soil Moisture Content Data Assimilation in Operational Local NWP System at JMA Satellite Soil Moisture Content Data Assimilation in Operational Local NWP System at JMA Yasutaka Ikuta Numerical Prediction Division Japan Meteorological Agency Acknowledgment: This research was supported

More information

Global and Regional OSEs at JMA

Global and Regional OSEs at JMA Global and Regional OSEs at JMA Yoshiaki SATO and colleagues Japan Meteorological Agency / Numerical Prediction Division 1 JMA NWP SYSTEM Global OSEs Contents AMSU A over coast, MHS over land, (related

More information

COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation and

COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation and An Impact Study of FORMOSAT-3/ COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation and Dropsonde Data on WRF Simulations 27 Mei-yu season Fang-Ching g Chien Department of Earth Sciences Chien National and Taiwan Kuo (29), Normal

More information

Experiments of Hurricane Initialization with Airborne Doppler Radar Data for the Advancedresearch Hurricane WRF (AHW) Model

Experiments of Hurricane Initialization with Airborne Doppler Radar Data for the Advancedresearch Hurricane WRF (AHW) Model Experiments of Hurricane Initialization with Airborne Doppler Radar Data for the Advancedresearch Hurricane WRF (AHW) Model Qingnong Xiao 1, Xiaoyan Zhang 1, Christopher Davis 1, John Tuttle 1, Greg Holland

More information

Scatterometer winds in rapidly developing storms (SCARASTO) First experiments on data assimilation of scatterometer winds

Scatterometer winds in rapidly developing storms (SCARASTO) First experiments on data assimilation of scatterometer winds Scatterometer winds in rapidly developing storms (SCARASTO) First experiments on data assimilation of scatterometer winds Teresa Valkonen, EUMETSAT fellow Norwegian Meteorological Institute MET Norway,Oslo

More information

Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation at the Met Office

Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation at the Met Office Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation at the Met Office Ed Pavelin, Stephen English, Brett Candy, Fiona Hilton Outline Summary of satellite data used in the Met Office NWP system Processing and quality

More information

Satellite-Derived Winds in the U.S. Navy s Global NWP System: Usage and Data Impacts in the Tropics

Satellite-Derived Winds in the U.S. Navy s Global NWP System: Usage and Data Impacts in the Tropics Satellite-Derived Winds in the U.S. Navy s Global NWP System: Usage and Data Impacts in the Tropics Patricia Pauley 1, Rolf Langland 1, Rebecca Stone 2, and Nancy Baker 1 1 Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey,

More information

Advances in weather modelling

Advances in weather modelling Advances in weather modelling www.cawcr.gov.au Robert Fawcett - speaking on behalf of CAWCR Earth-System Modelling and CAWCR Weather and Environmental Prediction May 2013 The Centre for Australian Weather

More information

Use of DFS to estimate observation impact in NWP. Comparison of observation impact derived from OSEs and DFS. Cristina Lupu

Use of DFS to estimate observation impact in NWP. Comparison of observation impact derived from OSEs and DFS. Cristina Lupu Use of DFS to estimate observation impact in NWP. Comparison of observation impact derived from OSEs and DFS. Cristina Lupu ECMWF, Reading, UK Collaboration: Pierre Gauthier (UQAM), Stéphane Laroche (Environment

More information

AN OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENT OF MTSAT RAPID SCAN AMV USING JMA MESO-SCALE OPERATIONAL NWP SYSTEM

AN OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENT OF MTSAT RAPID SCAN AMV USING JMA MESO-SCALE OPERATIONAL NWP SYSTEM AN OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENT OF MTSAT RAPID SCAN AMV USING JMA MESO-SCALE OPERATIONAL NWP SYSTEM Koji Yamashita Japan Meteorological Agency / Numerical Prediction Division 1-3-4, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,

More information

THE USE OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN NWP

THE USE OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN NWP THE USE OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS IN NWP The impact of satellite measurements on NWP began in the early 70s with the operational use of global satellite cloud imagery. Nowadays the impact is from active

More information

Recent Data Assimilation Activities at Environment Canada

Recent Data Assimilation Activities at Environment Canada Recent Data Assimilation Activities at Environment Canada Major upgrade to global and regional deterministic prediction systems (now in parallel run) Sea ice data assimilation Mark Buehner Data Assimilation

More information

Recent developments for CNMCA LETKF

Recent developments for CNMCA LETKF Recent developments for CNMCA LETKF Lucio Torrisi and Francesca Marcucci CNMCA, Italian National Met Center Outline Implementation of the LETKF at CNMCA Treatment of model error in the CNMCA-LETKF The

More information

Masahiro Kazumori, Takashi Kadowaki Numerical Prediction Division Japan Meteorological Agency

Masahiro Kazumori, Takashi Kadowaki Numerical Prediction Division Japan Meteorological Agency Development of an all-sky assimilation of microwave imager and sounder radiances for the Japan Meteorological Agency global numerical weather prediction system Masahiro Kazumori, Takashi Kadowaki Numerical

More information

Use and impact of ATOVS in the DMI-HIRLAM regional weather model

Use and impact of ATOVS in the DMI-HIRLAM regional weather model Use and impact of ATOVS in the DMI-HIRLAM regional weather model J. Grove-Rasmussen B. Amstrup and K.S. Mogensen E-mail: jgr@dmi.dk, bja@dmi.dk and ksm@dmi.dk Danish Meteorological Institute Lyngbyvej,

More information

Forecast of hurricane track and intensity with advanced IR soundings

Forecast of hurricane track and intensity with advanced IR soundings Forecast of hurricane track and intensity with advanced IR soundings Jun Li @, Hui Liu #, Jinlong Li @, and Tim Schmit & @CIMSS/SSEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison #National Center for Atmospheric Research

More information

HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS GENERATION, ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSIMILATION

HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS GENERATION, ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSIMILATION HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS GENERATION, ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND ASSIMILATION John Le Marshall Director, JCSDA 2004-2007 CAWCR 2007-2010 John Le Marshall 1,2, Rolf

More information

Recent experience at Météo-France on the assimilation of observations at high temporal frequency Cliquez pour modifier le style du titre

Recent experience at Météo-France on the assimilation of observations at high temporal frequency Cliquez pour modifier le style du titre Recent experience at Météo-France on the assimilation of observations at high temporal frequency Cliquez pour modifier le style du titre J.-F. Mahfouf, P. Brousseau, P. Chambon and G. Desroziers Météo-France/CNRS

More information

Satellite Assimilation Activities for the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation (NAVDAS) and NAVDAS- AR (Accelerated Representer) Systems

Satellite Assimilation Activities for the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation (NAVDAS) and NAVDAS- AR (Accelerated Representer) Systems Satellite Assimilation Activities for the NRL Atmospheric Variational Data Assimilation (NAVDAS) and NAVDAS- AR (Accelerated Representer) Systems Marine Meteorology Division, NRL Monterey Nancy Baker,

More information

The impact of assimilation of microwave radiance in HWRF on the forecast over the western Pacific Ocean

The impact of assimilation of microwave radiance in HWRF on the forecast over the western Pacific Ocean The impact of assimilation of microwave radiance in HWRF on the forecast over the western Pacific Ocean Chun-Chieh Chao, 1 Chien-Ben Chou 2 and Huei-Ping Huang 3 1Meteorological Informatics Business Division,

More information

Direct assimilation of all-sky microwave radiances at ECMWF

Direct assimilation of all-sky microwave radiances at ECMWF Direct assimilation of all-sky microwave radiances at ECMWF Peter Bauer, Alan Geer, Philippe Lopez, Deborah Salmond European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reading, Berkshire, UK Slide 1 17

More information

Use of satellite data in ALADIN HARMONIE/Norway

Use of satellite data in ALADIN HARMONIE/Norway Use of satellite data in ALADI HARMOIE/orway Andrea Storto and Roger Randriamampianina orwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo orway andrea.storto@met.no, rogerr@met.no Abstract The ALADI/HARMOIE three-dimensional

More information

IMPACT OF IASI DATA ON FORECASTING POLAR LOWS

IMPACT OF IASI DATA ON FORECASTING POLAR LOWS IMPACT OF IASI DATA ON FORECASTING POLAR LOWS Roger Randriamampianina rwegian Meteorological Institute, Pb. 43 Blindern, N-0313 Oslo, rway rogerr@met.no Abstract The rwegian THORPEX-IPY aims to significantly

More information

Overview on Data Assimilation Activities in COSMO

Overview on Data Assimilation Activities in COSMO Overview on Data Assimilation Activities in COSMO Deutscher Wetterdienst, D-63067 Offenbach, Germany current DA method: nudging PP KENDA for (1 3) km-scale EPS: LETKF radar-derived precip: latent heat

More information

Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office

Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office Bias correction of satellite data at the Met Office Nigel Atkinson, James Cameron, Brett Candy and Stephen English Met Office, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom 1. Introduction At the Met Office,

More information

AMVs in the ECMWF system:

AMVs in the ECMWF system: AMVs in the ECMWF system: Overview of the recent operational and research activities Kirsti Salonen and Niels Bormann Slide 1 AMV sample coverage: monitored GOES-15 GOES-13 MET-10 MET-7 MTSAT-2 NOAA-15

More information

The assimilation of AMSU-A radiances in the NWP model ALADIN. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Patrik Benáček 2011

The assimilation of AMSU-A radiances in the NWP model ALADIN. The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Patrik Benáček 2011 The assimilation of AMSU-A radiances in the NWP model ALADIN The Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Patrik Benáček 2011 Outline Introduction Sensor AMSU-A Set-up of model ALADIN Set-up of experiments

More information

Observing system experiments of MTSAT-2 Rapid Scan Atmospheric Motion Vector for T-PARC 2008 using the JMA operational NWP system

Observing system experiments of MTSAT-2 Rapid Scan Atmospheric Motion Vector for T-PARC 2008 using the JMA operational NWP system Tenth International Winds Workshop 1 Observing system experiments of MTSAT-2 Rapid Scan Atmospheric Motion Vector for T-PARC 2008 using the JMA operational NWP system Koji Yamashita Japan Meteorological

More information

Assimilation of GNSS Radio Occultation Data at JMA. Hiromi Owada, Yoichi Hirahara and Masami Moriya Japan Meteorological Agency

Assimilation of GNSS Radio Occultation Data at JMA. Hiromi Owada, Yoichi Hirahara and Masami Moriya Japan Meteorological Agency Assimilation of GNSS Radio Occultation Data at JMA Hiromi Owada, Yoichi Hirahara and Masami Moriya Japan Meteorological Agency COSMIC-IROWG 2017, 21-27 September 2017 1 Outline Current RO data utilization

More information

CMA/NSMC Satellite Data Assimilation Activities: Uses of ATOVS and Fengyun VASS Data in WRF

CMA/NSMC Satellite Data Assimilation Activities: Uses of ATOVS and Fengyun VASS Data in WRF CMA/NSMC Satellite Data Assimilation Activities: Uses of ATOVS and Fengyun VASS Data in WRF Lu Qifeng 1, Liu Zhiquan 1,2,Wu Xuebao 1, Zhang Peng 1, Lu Naimeng 1, Zhang Fengying 1, Ma gang 1, Yang jun 1,

More information

Impact of assimilating the VIIRS-based CrIS cloudcleared radiances on hurricane forecasts

Impact of assimilating the VIIRS-based CrIS cloudcleared radiances on hurricane forecasts Impact of assimilating the VIIRS-based CrIS cloudcleared radiances on hurricane forecasts Jun Li @, Pei Wang @, Jinlong Li @, Zhenglong Li @, Jung-Rim Lee &, Agnes Lim @, Timothy J. Schmit #, and Mitch

More information

Assimilation of IASI data at the Met Office. Fiona Hilton Nigel Atkinson ITSC-XVI, Angra dos Reis, Brazil 07/05/08

Assimilation of IASI data at the Met Office. Fiona Hilton Nigel Atkinson ITSC-XVI, Angra dos Reis, Brazil 07/05/08 Assimilation of IASI data at the Met Office Fiona Hilton Nigel Atkinson ITSC-XVI, Angra dos Reis, Brazil 07/05/08 Thanks to my other colleagues! Andrew Collard (ECMWF) Brett Candy, Steve English, James

More information

Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)

Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Satellite data assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP Niels Bormann European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF (with contributions from Tony McNally, Slide 1 Jean-Noël Thépaut,

More information

Does the ATOVS RARS Network Matter for Global NWP? Brett Candy, Nigel Atkinson & Stephen English

Does the ATOVS RARS Network Matter for Global NWP? Brett Candy, Nigel Atkinson & Stephen English Does the ATOVS RARS Network Matter for Global NWP? Brett Candy, Nigel Atkinson & Stephen English Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom 1. Introduction Along with other global numerical weather prediction

More information

ASSIMILATION OF CLOUDY AMSU-A MICROWAVE RADIANCES IN 4D-VAR 1. Stephen English, Una O Keeffe and Martin Sharpe

ASSIMILATION OF CLOUDY AMSU-A MICROWAVE RADIANCES IN 4D-VAR 1. Stephen English, Una O Keeffe and Martin Sharpe ASSIMILATION OF CLOUDY AMSU-A MICROWAVE RADIANCES IN 4D-VAR 1 Stephen English, Una O Keeffe and Martin Sharpe Met Office, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB Abstract The assimilation of cloud-affected satellite

More information

ABSTRACT 3 RADIAL VELOCITY ASSIMILATION IN BJRUC 3.1 ASSIMILATION STRATEGY OF RADIAL

ABSTRACT 3 RADIAL VELOCITY ASSIMILATION IN BJRUC 3.1 ASSIMILATION STRATEGY OF RADIAL REAL-TIME RADAR RADIAL VELOCITY ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS IN A PRE-OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK IN NORTH CHINA Min Chen 1 Ming-xuan Chen 1 Shui-yong Fan 1 Hong-li Wang 2 Jenny Sun 2 1 Institute of Urban Meteorology,

More information

Use of satellite data in reanalysis

Use of satellite data in reanalysis Use of satellite data in reanalysis Dick Dee Acknowledgements: Paul Poli, Adrian Simmons, Hans Hersbach, Carole Peubey, David Tan, Rossana Dragani, the rest of the reanalysis team and many others at ECMWF.

More information

DIAGNOSING OBSERVATION ERROR STATISTICS FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION

DIAGNOSING OBSERVATION ERROR STATISTICS FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION DIAGNOSING OBSERVATION ERROR STATISTICS FOR NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION J. Waller, S. Dance, N. Nichols (University of Reading) D. Simonin, S. Ballard, G. Kelly (Met Office) EMS Annual Meeting: European

More information

ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS WITH DATA FROM THREE CONICALLY SCANNING MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS (SSMIS, AMSR-E, TMI) IN THE ECMWF SYSTEM

ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS WITH DATA FROM THREE CONICALLY SCANNING MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS (SSMIS, AMSR-E, TMI) IN THE ECMWF SYSTEM ASSIMILATION EXPERIMENTS WITH DATA FROM THREE CONICALLY SCANNING MICROWAVE INSTRUMENTS (SSMIS, AMSR-E, TMI) IN THE ECMWF SYSTEM Niels Bormann 1, Graeme Kelly 1, Peter Bauer 1, and Bill Bell 2 1 ECMWF,

More information

OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS ON ATOVS ORBIT CONSTELLATIONS

OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS ON ATOVS ORBIT CONSTELLATIONS OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS ON ATOVS ORBIT CONSTELLATIONS Enza Di Tomaso and Niels Bormann European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom Abstract

More information

Configuration of All-sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation in the NCEP's GFS Data Assimilation System

Configuration of All-sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation in the NCEP's GFS Data Assimilation System Configuration of All-sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation in the NCEP's GFS Data Assimilation System Yanqiu Zhu 1, Emily Liu 1, Rahul Mahajan 1, Catherine Thomas 1, David Groff 1, Paul Van Delst 1, Andrew

More information

On the assimilation of hyperspectral infrared sounder radiances in cloudy skies

On the assimilation of hyperspectral infrared sounder radiances in cloudy skies On the assimilation of hyperspectral infrared sounder radiances in cloudy skies Jun Li 1, Pei Wang 1, Zhenglong Li 1, Jinlong Li 1 and Mitchell D. Goldberg 2 1 Cooperative Institute for Meteorological

More information

The Impacts of GPSRO Data Assimilation and Four Ices Microphysics Scheme on Simulation of heavy rainfall Events over Taiwan during June 2012

The Impacts of GPSRO Data Assimilation and Four Ices Microphysics Scheme on Simulation of heavy rainfall Events over Taiwan during June 2012 The Impacts of GPSRO Data Assimilation and Four Ices Microphysics Scheme on Simulation of heavy rainfall Events over Taiwan during 10-12 June 2012 Pay-Liam LIN, Y.-J. Chen, B.-Y. Lu, C.-K. WANG, C.-S.

More information

Data Short description Parameters to be used for analysis SYNOP. Surface observations by ships, oil rigs and moored buoys

Data Short description Parameters to be used for analysis SYNOP. Surface observations by ships, oil rigs and moored buoys 3.2 Observational Data 3.2.1 Data used in the analysis Data Short description Parameters to be used for analysis SYNOP Surface observations at fixed stations over land P,, T, Rh SHIP BUOY TEMP PILOT Aircraft

More information

Assimilation of CrIS and ATMS Radiances in HWRF to Improve Hurricane/Typhoon Forecasts

Assimilation of CrIS and ATMS Radiances in HWRF to Improve Hurricane/Typhoon Forecasts Assimilation of CrIS and ATMS Radiances in HWRF to Improve Hurricane/Typhoon Forecasts Fuzhong Weng 1, Xiaolei Zou 2, Lin Lin 3, Banglin Zhang 4, Vijay Tallaparagada 4 and Mitch Goldberg 5 1. NOAA Center

More information

Use of AMSU data in the Met Office UK Mesoscale Model

Use of AMSU data in the Met Office UK Mesoscale Model Use of AMSU data in the Met Office UK Mesoscale Model 1. Introduction Brett Candy, Stephen English, Richard Renshaw & Bruce Macpherson The Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom In common with other global

More information

JMA s ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS In response to Action 40.22

JMA s ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS In response to Action 40.22 5 July 2013 Prepared by JMA Agenda Item: II/6 Discussed in WG II JMA s ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS In response to Action 40.22 This paper reports on the recent status of JMA's AMVs from MTSAT-2 and MTSAT-1R,

More information

SMHI activities on Data Assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction

SMHI activities on Data Assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction SMHI activities on Data Assimilation for Numerical Weather Prediction ECMWF visit to SMHI, 4-5 December, 2017 Magnus Lindskog and colleagues Structure Introduction Observation usage Monitoring Methodologies

More information

WRFDA 2012 Overview. Xiang-Yu Huang. National Center for Atmospheric Research

WRFDA 2012 Overview. Xiang-Yu Huang. National Center for Atmospheric Research WRF 2012 Overview Xiang-Yu Huang National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Acknowledge: NCAR/NESL/MMM/S, NCAR/RAL/JNT/T, AFWA, USWRP, NSF-OPP, NASA,

More information

Evaluation of FY-3B data and an assessment of passband shifts in AMSU-A and MSU during the period

Evaluation of FY-3B data and an assessment of passband shifts in AMSU-A and MSU during the period Interim report of Visiting Scientist mission NWP_11_05 Document NWPSAF-EC-VS-023 Version 0.1 28 March 2012 Evaluation of FY-3B data and an assessment of passband Qifeng Lu 1 and William Bell 2 1. China

More information

Bias Correction Issues in Limited Area Models: Strategy for HIRLAM

Bias Correction Issues in Limited Area Models: Strategy for HIRLAM Bias Correction Issues in Limited Area Models: Strategy for HIRLAM Per Dahlgren Brief Introduction To HIRLAM HIRLAM, HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model Joint project between: Sweden, Denmark, Finland,

More information

HIRLAM upper-air data assimilation

HIRLAM upper-air data assimilation HIRLAM upper-air data assimilation Roger Randriamampianina with contribution of HIRLAM colleagues LACE WD, 2017, Ljubljana outline - Operational upper air data assimilation (UA-DA) systems in HIRLAM; -

More information

Observations of Mediterranean Precipitating Systems using AMSU

Observations of Mediterranean Precipitating Systems using AMSU Observations of Mediterranean Precipitating Systems using AMSU Beatriz FUNATSU 1, Chantal CLAUD 1 and Jean-Pierre CHABOUREAU 2 1 Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/IPSL, Palaiseau 2 Laboratoire d Aerologie/CNRS-UPS,

More information

High Latitude Satellite Derived Winds from Combined Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Satellite Data

High Latitude Satellite Derived Winds from Combined Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Satellite Data High Latitude Satellite Derived Winds from Combined Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Satellite Data Brett Hoover Dave Santek, Matt Lazzara, Rich Dworak, Jeff Key, Chris Velden, and Nick Bearson 11 th International

More information

The Use of a Self-Evolving Additive Inflation in the CNMCA Ensemble Data Assimilation System

The Use of a Self-Evolving Additive Inflation in the CNMCA Ensemble Data Assimilation System The Use of a Self-Evolving Additive Inflation in the CNMCA Ensemble Data Assimilation System Lucio Torrisi and Francesca Marcucci CNMCA, Italian National Met Center Outline Implementation of the LETKF

More information

Data Assimilation at CHMI

Data Assimilation at CHMI Data Assimilation at CHMI progress report from September 2008 Alena Trojáková Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Na Šabatce 17, 143 06 Prague 4 Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Evaluation of the assimilation

More information

The Ensemble Prediction Systems at NMC/CMA

The Ensemble Prediction Systems at NMC/CMA The Ensemble Prediction Systems at NMC/CMA Xiaoli Li, Jing Chen, Guo Deng, Hua Tian Numerical Prediction Center/ National Meteorological Center, CMA May 11 2011 Maryland, U.S.A Overview Operational EPSs

More information

Accounting for non-gaussian observation error

Accounting for non-gaussian observation error Accounting for non-gaussian observation error Lars Isaksen & Christina Tavolato ECMWF Royal Meteorological Society Meeting Comparing observations with models 5 May 2009, ECMWF Acknowledgements to Erik

More information

Tropical Cyclone Initialization with Dynamical and Physical constraints derived from Satellite data

Tropical Cyclone Initialization with Dynamical and Physical constraints derived from Satellite data International Workshop on Rapid Change Phenomena in Tropical Cyclones Haikou China, 5 9 November 2012 Tropical Cyclone Initialization with Dynamical and Physical constraints derived from Satellite data

More information

Observing System Performance in the CFS Reanalysis

Observing System Performance in the CFS Reanalysis Observing System Performance in the CFS Reanalysis JACK WOOLLEN SAIC/EMC/NCEP These data report information using conventional meteorological units (p,q,t,u,v)either directly or indirectly observed and

More information

Uncertainty in Operational Atmospheric Analyses. Rolf Langland Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA

Uncertainty in Operational Atmospheric Analyses. Rolf Langland Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA Uncertainty in Operational Atmospheric Analyses 1 Rolf Langland Naval Research Laboratory Monterey, CA Objectives 2 1. Quantify the uncertainty (differences) in current operational analyses of the atmosphere

More information

TOWARDS IMPROVED HEIGHT ASSIGNMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL OF AMVS IN MET OFFICE NWP

TOWARDS IMPROVED HEIGHT ASSIGNMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL OF AMVS IN MET OFFICE NWP Proceedings for the 13 th International Winds Workshop 27 June - 1 July 2016, Monterey, California, USA TOWARDS IMPROVED HEIGHT ASSIGNMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL OF AMVS IN MET OFFICE NWP James Cotton, Mary

More information

WRF 4D-Var The Weather Research and Forecasting model based 4-Dimensional Variational data assimilation system

WRF 4D-Var The Weather Research and Forecasting model based 4-Dimensional Variational data assimilation system WRF 4D-Var The Weather Research and Forecasting model based 4-Dimensional Variational data assimilation system Xiang-Yu Huang National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado On leave from Danish

More information

Assimilation of GPS radio occultation measurements at Météo-France

Assimilation of GPS radio occultation measurements at Météo-France Assimilation of GPS radio occultation measurements at Météo-France P. Poli Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques CNRS-GAME, 42 av. Coriolis, 31057 Toulouse, France paul.poli@meteo.fr G. Beyerle,

More information