A Multi-platform (i.e, Satellite) Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Analysis John Knaff, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USA Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USA Debra Molenar, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USA Buck Sampson, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD, Suitland, MD, USA Graciously Presented by Andrew Burton ,Australian BoM, Perth, WA, Australia
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A Multi-platform (i.e, Satellite) Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Analysis
John Knaff, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USAMark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USA Debra Molenar, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Buck Sampson, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USAMatthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD, Suitland, MD, USA
Graciously Presented byAndrew Burton ,Australian BoM, Perth, WA, Australia
Need
• Estimates of tropical cyclone (TC) surface wind structure is a routinely analyzed and forecast quantity.
• However, there are few tools to estimate tropical cyclone wind structure in the absence of aircraft reconnaissance– Cloud drift winds– Scatterometer wind vectors– SSM/I wind speeds– AMSU– Etc…
• and the existing tools fail to provide a complete picture of the surface wind field, particularly near the center of strong TCs.
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Solution• Global product that combine satellite-based winds or Multi-
platform Tropical Cyclone -Surface Wind Analysis (MTC-SWA)– Storm relative winds (12-h window)– Account for the shortcomings
• Quality control• Variational data analysis at flight-level
– Data weights– Previous analysis as first guess– Cylindrical analysis grid
– Adjust flight-level winds to the surface• Simple rules• Account for land/sea differences
– Produce diagnostics every 6 hours & globally• Wind radii• MSLP
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Real-time cases available at http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/andhttp://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/mtcswa.html
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Input Data
• AMSU – derived balanced winds
• Scatterometry
• Cloud and feature track winds
• IR – based analogs of flight-level (850-700 hPa) winds (i.e., aircraft-based wind analogs)
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Input: AMSU-Based Balanced WindsBessho et al. (2006)
• These are created as part of a NCEP operational tropical cyclone intensity and structure products
• AMSU antenna temperatures are used to estimate temperature retrievals and cloud liquid water (Goldenberg 1999)
• Cloud liquid water and horizontal temperature anomalies are used to correct temperature retrievals (Demuth et al. 2004, 2006)
• The corrected temperatures are then analyzed on standard pressure levels (using GFS boundary conditions).
• Using the resulting height field the non-linear balance equation is solved to estimate the 2-dimensional wind field (Bessho et al. 2006)
• Because of the resolution of AMSU, the winds in the core of TCs are not resolved using this method.
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Input: AMSU-Based Balanced Winds Bessho et al. (2006)
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) – Based, by-product of an operational intensity estimation algorithm
• Polar orbit (NOAA-15, 16 & 18)• Analysis of temperature retrievals
provide a height field• Non-linear balance approximation
provides wind estimates at flight-level (700 hPa)
Shortcomings• Resolution, too weak near the
center• Too asymmetric
Hurricane Paloma 7 Nov 2008 2225 UTC2 km resolution
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Input: Surface Scatterometry
• Active radar method (k-band, c-band)
• Accurate low level winds
• Attenuates in high winds (i.e., > ~50 kt)
• Is adversely affected by heavy precipitation
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Input: Surface ScatterometryA-SCAT on MetOp
Surface wind vectors from ASCAT and QuikSCAT scatterometers
• Polar orbit• 10-m wind vectors• ASCAT is c-band
– 25km resolution– Less affected by precipitation
• QuikSCAT is k-band– N/A
Shortcomings• Saturation in high winds• Attenuation/contamination in
heavy rain 2 km resolutionHurricane Paloma 8 Nov 2008 0545 UTC
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Input: Cloud/Feature Tracked Winds
• Routinely available
• Accurate
• But low-level winds are often not available near the core of TCs
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Input: Cloud/Feature Track windsvarious methods from operational centers
Verification (2008-2009, Atlantic)Are These Any Good?
Ground Truth
1.H*Wind Analyses
2.NHC best track of wind radii (when aircraft reconnaissance ± 2 hours)
3.NHC best track of central pressure (when aircraft reconnaissance ± 2 hours)
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Vs. H*Wind (all cases)
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Vs. H*Wind (> 64 kt cases)
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Vs. H*Wind (≤ 64 kt)
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Do the size extimates correlate with the observations?
Answer: Yes
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Pressure Estimation
MTCSWA Climatology
(Dvorak 1975)
Bias 0.5 2.4
MAE 6.8 7.0
RMSE 9.5 9.2
R2 [%] 84 82
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Interpreting the Verification
Strengths• Always available• Global• Available every 6 hours• Wind radii well correlated
with storm radii• Errors are generally lower
than climatology (Knaff et al. 2007), except in the SE quadrant.
• Central pressure estimates, particularly for the Vmax < 100 kt.
Weaknesses• 64-kt winds too large, which
causes central pressure estimates to be too low for the most intense systems.
• 34-kt winds a little too small• Negative biases in SE (NE)
quadrant in the N. Hemisphere (Southern Hemisphere)
• Most of the inner core errors are associated with poorly estimating the radii of maximum winds
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Review of the purposeDevelop a product that uses existing TC surface and near-surface wind information to construct an analysis of the 2-dimensional structure of the surface wind around TC.
•Uses existing satellite inputs
•Combines their strengths
•Produces and analysis with lower errors than any of the inputs.
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Questions?
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Additional information/reading
Knaff, J. A., M. DeMaria, D. A. Molenar, C. R. Sampson and M. G. Seybold, 2011: An automated, objective, multi-satellite platform tropical cyclone surface wind analysis. Submitted to J. Appl. Meteorol.
Knaff, J. A., C. R. Sampson, M. DeMaria, T. P. Marchok, J. M. Gross, and C. J. McAdie, 2007: Statistical Tropical Cyclone Wind Radii Prediction Using Climatology and Persistence, Wea. Forecasting, 22:4, 781–791.
Mueller, K.J., M. DeMaria, J.A. Knaff, J.P. Kossin, T.H. Vonder Haar: 2006: Objective Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Structure from Infrared Satellite Data. Wea. Forecasting, 21:6, 990–1005.
Bessho, K., M. DeMaria, J.A. Knaff , 2006: Tropical Cyclone Wind Retrievals from the Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (AMSU): Application to Surface Wind Analysis. J. of Applied Meteorology. 45:3, 399 - 415.
Demuth, J., M. DeMaria, and J.A. Knaff, 2006: Improvement of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size Estimation Algorithms, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 45:11, 1573–1581.
Demuth, J. L., M. DeMaria, J. A. Knaff, and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2004: Validation of an advanced microwave sounder unit (AMSU) tropical cyclone intensity and size estimation algorithm, J. App. Met., 43, 282-296.
Real-time cases available at http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/andhttp://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/mtcswa.html