AIRS impact on the analysis and forecast track of tropical cyclone Nargis in a global data assimilation and forecasting system

Details AIRS impact on the analysis and forecast track of tropical cyclone Nargis in a global data assimilation and forecasting system AIRS impact on the analysis and forecast track of tropical cyclone Nargis in a global data assimilation and forecasting system

Mar 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009georl..3606812r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 36, Issue 6, CiteID L06812

Computer Science

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Atmospheric Processes: Data Assimilation, Atmospheric Processes: Tropical Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Synoptic-Scale Meteorology, Atmospheric Processes: Global Climate Models (1626, 4928)

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Tropical cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean pose serious challenges to operational weather forecasting systems, partly due to their shorter lifespan and more erratic track, compared to those in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Moreover, the automated analyses of cyclones over the northern Indian Ocean, produced by operational global data assimilation systems (DASs), are generally of inferior quality than in other basins, partly because of asymmetric data distribution and the absence of targeted observations inside cyclones. In this work it is shown that the assimilation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) temperature retrievals under partial cloudy conditions can significantly impact the representation of the cyclone Nargis (which caused devastating loss of life in Myanmar in May 2008) in a global DAS. Forecasts produced from these improved analyses by a global model produce substantially smaller track errors. The impact of the assimilation of clear-sky radiances on the same DAS and forecasting system is positive, but smaller than the one obtained by ingestion of AIRS retrievals, probably due to poorer coverage.

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