Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 17-28.doi: 10.11978/2021160CSTR: 32234.14.2021160

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Assimilating MWHS-2 radiance of FY-3D satellite and its influence on the forecast of Typhoon Mitag*

SHU Aiqing1(), XU Dongmei1,2,4(), LI Hong2, WU Haiying3, SHEN Feifei1,2, DEND Hua1, BAI Yawen1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME) / Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC) / Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
    2. Shanghai Typhoon Institute, China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai 200030, China
    3. Jiangsu Meteorological Observatory, Nanjing 210041, China
    4. Heavy Rain and Drought-Flood Disasters in Plateau and Basin Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610225, China
  • Received:2021-11-16 Revised:2022-01-11 Online:2022-09-10 Published:2022-01-17
  • Contact: XU Dongmei E-mail:20211201033@nuist.edu.cn;dmxu@nuist.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(42192553);Shanghai Academic / Technology Research Leader(21XD1404500);Shanghai Typhoon Research Foundation(TFJJ202107);National Natural Science Foundation of China(G41805016);National Natural Science Foundation of China(G41805070);Jiangsu Province Natural Science Fund(BK20201506);Research Project of Heavy Rain and Drought-Flood Disasters in Plateau and Basin Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province in China(SZKT201904);Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(KYCX22_1163)

Abstract:

Based on the module of directly assimilating MWHS-2 (microwave humidity sounder 2) radiance of FY-3D in the WRF (weather research and forecasting) model, this study investigates the influence of assimilating clear-sky MWHS-2 radiance on the forecast of Typhoon Mitag (2019) by using the 3DVar (three dimensional variation) assimilation method. Four experiments are designed. No assimilation is performed in the first one, while only GTS (global telecommunications system) data are used in the second one. Further, the assimilation of both GTS data and MWHS-2 radiance is carried out in the third one. The fourth one replaces MWHS-2 radiance with ATMS (advanced technology microwave sounder) radiance. The results show that the mean differences of all channels between the observation and the background verge to 0 after the bias correction. In addition, compared with the background field, the standard deviation and root mean square error of the analysis field versus the observation decrease significantly after the assimilation, which demonstrates the effectiveness of assimilation. Compared with the experiment only assimilating GTS data and the experiment assimilating ATMS radiance, a negative height increment and a positive temperature increment are observed near the typhoon center after assimilating clear-sky MWHS-2 radiance, which contributes to the maintenance of typhoon from the dynamic and thermal aspects. In the last 12 hours of the deterministic forecast, the experiment assimilating clear-sky MWHS-2 radiance is able to improve the 500 hPa circulation simulation with stronger southwest steering flow, which finally reduces the error of typhoon track forecast.

Key words: Typhoon Mitag, FY-3D satellite, clear-sky MWHS-2 radiance, 3DVar, numerical weather prediction

CLC Number: 

  • P714.2