1 Results from Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program 2007 Yucheng Song IMSG/EMC/NCEP Zoltan Toth EMC/NCEP/NWS Sharan Majumdar Univ. of Miami Mark Shirley NCO/NCEP/NWS http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/targobs Meeting of the Working Group on Space-based Lidar Winds, Monterey, CA 5-8 Feburary 2008
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Results from Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program 2007
Yucheng Song IMSG/EMC/NCEPZoltan Toth EMC/NCEP/NWS Sharan Majumdar Univ. of MiamiMark Shirley NCO/NCEP/NWS
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/targobs
Meeting of the Working Group on Space-based Lidar Winds, Monterey, CA 5-8 Feburary 2008
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Winter Storm Damages can’t be underestimated
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Acknowledgments
• NWS field offices, HPC/NCEP and SDMs• NOAA G-IV and the USAFR C-130 flight crews• CARCAH (John Pavone)• Jack Woollen - EMC• Russ Treadon - EMC• Mark Iredell - EMC• Istvan Szunyogh – Univ. of Maryland• Craig Bishop - NRL• + others who have contributed!
Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program
Objective:
Improve Forecasts of Significant Winter Weather Events Through Targeted Observations in Data Sparse Northeast Pacific Ocean
Adaptive approach to collection of observational data:1) Only Prior to Significant Winter Weather Events of Interest2) Only in Areas that Influence high impact event Forecasts
Results: 70+% of Targeted Numerical Weather Predictions Improve
10-20% error reduction for high impact event forecasts12-hour gain in predicting high impact events – earlier warnings possible
Operational since January 2001
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About the Winter Storm Reconnaissance (WSR 2007) Program
• Took place 20 Jan – 13 March 2007• Dropwinsonde observations taken over the NE
Pacific by aircraft operated by NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center (G-IV) and the US Air Force Reserve (C-130s).
• Observations are adaptive – – collected only prior to significant winter weather events of
interest – in areas that might influence forecast the most.
• 31 flights, around 478 dropsondes this winter which is increased from 342 drops last year
• Several communication problems from C-130s
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About the Winter Storm Reconnaissance (WSR 2007) Program – (continued)
• Evaluation methods– NCEP Global Forecast System running on T126L28
resolution – Three sets of experiments
• A. GFS run with all the WSR dropsondes being assimilated
• B. GFS run without WSR dropsondes data rejected on all days
• C. GFS run with WSR dropsondes data rejected only on the WSR observation day (i.e. the guess files are the same as the operational)
• Experiment Design - Experiment C is used for signal propagation studies, it can single
out the data impact due to current dropsondes clearly without interferences from the previous dropsondes
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The ETKF spotted the target area
Expected error reduction propagation
Targeting methods – ETKF application example
Storm
Dropsondes to be made by G-IV
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Forecast verification(Jan 20-22,2007 A vs.C)
Red contours show forecast improvement due to WSR dropsondes, blue contours show forecast degradation
500mb height
250mb height
Sea Level Pressure
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Impact of Dropsondes
500mb height250mb height
Precipitation Surface pressure
Contours are 1000mb geopotential height, shades are differences in the fields between two experiments
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Comparison of ETKF signal and NCEP signal(A vs. C)
The ETKF signal The NCEP signal
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Valentine’s day storm2007
One of the largest winter storms that strikes interior sections of the Northeast since 1950
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NCEP requested two missions
• A flight is requested from Honolulu along track 34 with a control time of 11/00Z Verification information is as follows:
Verification time: 2007021400 Latitude: 36 Longitude: 86 Priority: HIGH Comments: East Coast winter Wx • A flight is requested from Honolulu along track 46 with a
control time of 12/00Z Verification information is as follows:
Verification time: 2007021412 Latitude: 38 Longitude: 77 Priority: HIGH Comments: East Coast winter wx
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Comparison of ETKF signal and NCEP signal
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Valentine’s day Storm
• Weather event with a large societal impact• Each GFS run verified against its own analysis – 60 hr forecast• Impact on surface pressure verification• RMS error improvement: 19.7% (2.48mb vs. 2.97mb)
Surface pressure from analysis (hPa; solid contours)Forecast Improvement (hPa; shown in red)Forecast Degradation (hPa; blue)
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Valentine’s day Storm
• Weather event with a large societal impact• Each GFS run verified against its own analysis – 60 hr forecast• Impact on surface pressure verification• RMS error improvement: 19.7% (2.48mb vs. 2.97mb)
Surface pressure from analysis (hPa; solid contours)Forecast Improvement (hPa; shown in red)Forecast Degradation (hPa; blue)
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Valentine’s day StormImpact on precipitation (A.vs.C)
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Forecast Verification for Wind (2007)
RMS error reduction vs. forecast lead time
10-20% rms error reduction in winds
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Forecast Verification for Temperature (2007)
RMS error reduction vs. forecast lead time
10-20% rms error reduction in Temperature
60 hr forecast is equivalent to 48hr forecast
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Breakdown for cases
Variable# cases
improved# cases neutral
#cases degraded
Surface pressure 25 0 12
Temperature 24 0 13
Vector Wind 27 0 10
Humidity 24 0 13
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Individual Case Comparison
1 denotes positive effect
0 denotes neutral effect
-1 denotes negative effect
26 OVERALL POSITIVE
0 OVERALL NEUTRAL
11 OVERALL NEGATIVE
70% improved 30 % degraded
VR OBSDATE P T V OVERALL REGION FHOUR AK 20070120 1 1 1 1 130W ,55N 48 C 20070128 1 -1 -1 -1 97W ,33N 72 W 20070207 1 -1 -1 -1 123W ,40N 48 W 20070208 -1 1 1 1 123W ,40N 24 W 20070209 1 1 1 1 122W ,38N 24 W 20070211 1 -1 1 1 110W ,32N 48 E 20070211 1 -1 -1 -1 86W ,36N 72 W 20070212 -1 -1 -1 -1 110W ,32N 36 E 20070212 1 1 1 1 77W ,38N 60 W 20070215 1 -1 1 1 120W ,45N 24 AK 20070216 1 -1 1 1 135W ,60N 48 W 20070217 1 1 1 1 124W ,40N 36 W 20070218 1 1 1 1 117W ,40N 24 C 20070218 1 1 1 1 108W ,37N 48 C 20070218 1 1 1 1 90W ,35N 72 W 20070220 1 1 1 1 122W ,40N 60 W 20070221 1 1 1 1 122W ,40N 36 C 20070221 1 -1 -1 -1 96W ,43N 72 C 20070221 1 1 1 1 93W ,40N 96 W 20070222 1 1 1 1 120W ,37N 24 C 20070222 -1 -1 -1 -1 90W ,40N 72 E 20070222 -1 1 1 1 80W ,36N 96 W 20070223 1 1 1 1 123W ,42N 48 C 20070223 1 -1 1 1 94W ,37N 48 W 20070225 -1 1 1 1 123W ,42N 48 W 20070226 1 1 1 1 123W ,42N 24 W 20070228 1 1 1 1 122W ,43N 36 E 20070228 -1 1 1 1 86W ,35N 48 W 20070302 1 1 1 1 125W ,49N 36 AK 20070306 -1 -1 -1 -1 130W ,55N 36 E 20070308 1 1 1 1 85W ,34N 108 W 20070308 -1 1 -1 -1 124W ,46N 60 W 20070309 1 -1 1 1 124W ,45N 72 C 20070310 -1 -1 1 -1 93W ,37N 48 C 20070311 -1 1 -1 -1 96W ,32N 36 E 20070311 -1 1 -1 -1 81W ,42N 96 E 20070313 -1 1 1 1 81W ,42N 48