期刊
MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW
卷 149, 期 5, 页码 1317-1336出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-20-0108.1
关键词
Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Tropical cyclones; Numerical weather prediction; forecasting; Coupled models; Data assimilation; Regional models
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program [2017YFA0604202]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42006036]
- Hohai University [B210202141]
- U.K.-China Research and Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China as part of the Newton Fund
- Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation program
The study demonstrates the impact of strongly coupled data assimilation using hypothetical ocean currents on the analysis and forecasts of Typhoon Hato. By assimilating ocean current observations, significant improvements in track and intensity analysis of the typhoon were achieved, resulting in reduced errors in minimum pressure and maximum wind speed. This suggests the considerable potential of assimilating ocean currents from coastal HF radar and surface drifters within a strongly coupled framework for intense landfalling tropical cyclones.
The forecast of tropical cyclone (TC) intensity is a significant challenge. In this study, we showcase the impact of strongly coupled data assimilation with hypothetical ocean currents on analyses and forecasts of Typhoon Hato (2017). Several observation simulation system experiments (OSSE) were undertaken with a regional coupled ocean-atmosphere model. We assimilated combinations of (or individually) a hypothetical coastal current HF radar network, a dense array of drifter floats, and minimum sea level pressure. During the assimilation, instant updates of many important atmospheric variables (winds and pressure) are achieved from the assimilation of ocean current observations using the cross-domain error covariance, significantly improving the track and intensity analysis of Typhoon Hato. Relative to a control experiment (with no assimilation), the error of minimum pressure decreased by up to 13 hPa (4 hPa/57% on average). The maximum wind speed error decreased by up to 18 kt (5 kt/41% on average) (1 kt approximate to 0.5 m s(-1)). By contrast, weakly coupled implementations cannot match these reductions (10% on average). Although traditional atmospheric observations were not assimilated, such improvements indicate that there is considerable potential in assimilating ocean currents from coastal HF radar and surface drifters within a strongly coupled framework for intense landfalling TCs.
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