Comparison of 3 - km analyses and forecasts from WRF - LETKF and WRF - EAKF ensembles Corey Potvin 1,2 , Dusty Wheatley 1,2 , Kent Knopfmeier 1,2 , Lou Wicker 2 , and Terra Ladwig 3 1 Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK 2 NOAA National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK 3 NOAA ESRL/Global Sciences Division and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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Comparison of 3-km analyses and forecasts from WRF-LETKF and WRF-
EAKF ensembles
Corey Potvin1,2, Dusty Wheatley1,2, Kent Knopfmeier1,2, Lou Wicker2, and Terra Ladwig3
1Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK2NOAA National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK
3NOAA ESRL/Global Sciences Division and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
NOAA Warn-on-Forecast
• Paradigm shift in short-term forecasting of convective hazards: NWP plays major role– tornadoes, heavy rain, damaging wind/hail, etc.
• Convection-allowing ensemble data assimilation & forecasts – provide probabilistic information
• Primary goal: extend warning lead times
• Conventional + radar + satellite data– assimilated with EnKF or VAR-EnKF hybrid
LETKF vs. serial filters
• LETKF: Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (Hunt et al. 2007)
• NEWS-e: adaptive inflation (Anderson 2009)– Trying to implement in LETKF
Similar obs diagnostics quality
Mean innovations and consistency ratios for 19 May 2013 analyses
VR DBZ
LETKF updates more balanced
Ensemble- and domain-averaged surface pressure tendencies for 19 May 2013 analyses
Storms move too fast in both!
LETKF EAKF
19 May 2013 FORECAST: 22-23 Z (3 h of DA)Shading: Neighborhood ensemble probability of dBZ > 35Contours: 35 dBZ MRMS (NSSL Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor) analysis at 22 Z and 23 Z
Surface temperature composites
LETKF EAKF
19 May 2013 FORECAST: Minimum 2-m T (C) during 21-22 Z (2 h DA)Shading: Ensemble mean Circles: Oklahoma mesonet obsContours: 40 dBZ MRMS at 21 Z
Rainfall composites
LETKF EAKF
20 May 2013 FORECAST: 20-21 Z (2 h DA)Shading: Neighborhood ensemble probability of 1-h rainfall > 0.5” Blue contours: NCEP Stage-4 rainfall > 0.5” Black contours: 40 dBZ MRMS at 20 Z
Vorticity composites
20 May 2013 FORECASTS: 1930-2030 (1.5 h DA)Shading: neighborhood ensemble probability ζ > .005 s-1 below 2 km AGLContours: 40 dBZ MRMS at initial time; tornado damage path (1956-2035 Z)Dots: NSSL rotation detections 1900-2200 Z (green = stronger)
LETKF EAKF
1930-2030 Z
Conclusion
• The WRF-LETKF and WRF-EAKF ensembles have similar accuracy
• This motivates exploration of the potentially superior computational scaling of LETKF
References
• Anderson, J. L., 2001: An ensemble adjustment filter for data assimilation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2884–2903.
• Anderson, J. L., 2009: Spatially and temporally varying adaptive covariance inflation for ensemble filters. Tellus, 61A, 72–83.
• Dowell, D. C., and L. J. Wicker, 2009: Additive noise for storm-scale ensemble forecasting and data assimilation. J. Atmos. Ocea. Tech. 26, 911–927.
• Holland, B., and X. Wang, 2013: Effects of sequential or simultaneous assimilation of observations and localization methods on the performance of the ensemble Kalman filter. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 139, 758–770.
• Hunt, B. R., E. J. Kostelich and I. Szunyogh, 2007: Efficient Data Assimilation of Spatiotemporal Chaos: A Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter. Physics D, 230, 112-126.
• Miyoshi, T., S. Yamane, 2007: Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filtering with an AGCM at a T159/L48 Resolution. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3841–3861.
• Nerger, L., 2015: On serial observation processing in localized ensemble Kalman filters. Mon. Wea. Rev., 143, 1554–1567.
• Stensrud, D. J., and Coauthors, 2009: Convective-scale warn-on-forecast system: A vision for 2020. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1487–1499.
• Zhang, F., C. Snyder, and J. Sun, 2004: Impacts of initial estimate and observation availability on convective-scale data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1238–1253.
• Zhao, G., 2013: Development of ARPS LETKF with Four Dimensional Extension and Intercomparison with ARPS EnSRF, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 200 pp.
Extra Slides
Warn-on-Forecast (cont.)
Stensrud et al. 2009, BAMS
Vorticity composites
LETKF EAKF
20 May 2013 FORECASTS: 2000-2100 (2.0 h DA)Shading: neighborhood ensemble probability ζ > .005 s-1 below 2 km AGLContours: 40 dBZ MRMS at initial time; tornado damage path (1956-2035 Z)Dots: NSSL rotation detections 1900-2200 Z (green = stronger)
2000-2100 Z
Vorticity composites
LETKF EAKF
20 May 2013 FORECASTS: 2030-2130 (2.5 h DA)Shading: neighborhood ensemble probability ζ > .005 s-1 below 2 km AGLContours: 40 dBZ MRMS at initial time; tornado damage path (1956-2035 Z)Dots: NSSL rotation detections 1900-2200 Z (green = stronger)