Exploring the footprint representation of microwave radiance observations in an Arctic limited-area data assimilation system
The microwave radiances are key observations especially over data sparse regions for operational data assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP). An often applied simplification is that these observations are used as point measurements, however, the satellite field-of-view may cover many gri...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:gmdd115160 2024-06-23T07:49:55+00:00 Exploring the footprint representation of microwave radiance observations in an Arctic limited-area data assimilation system Mile, Máté Guedj, Stephanie Randriamampianina, Roger 2024-04-08 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-195 https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2023-195/ eng eng doi:10.5194/gmd-2023-195 https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2023-195/ eISSN: 1991-9603 Text 2024 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-195 2024-06-13T01:23:00Z The microwave radiances are key observations especially over data sparse regions for operational data assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP). An often applied simplification is that these observations are used as point measurements, however, the satellite field-of-view may cover many grid points of high-resolution models. Therefore, we examine a solution in high-resolution data assimilation to better account for the spatial representation of the radiance observations. This solution is based on a footprint operator implemented and tested in the variational assimilation scheme of the AROME-Arctic (Application of Research to Operations at Mesoscale – Arctic) limited-area model. In this paper, the design and technical challenges of the microwave radiance footprint operator are presented. In particular, implementation strategies, the representation of satellite field-of-view ellipses, and the emissivity retrieval inside the footprint area are discussed. Furthermore, the simulated brightness temperatures and the sub-footprint variability are analysed in a case study indicating particular areas where the use of the footprint operator is expected to provide significant added value. For radiances measured by the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) sensors, the standard deviation of the observation minus background (OmB) departures are computed on a short period in order to compare the statistics of the default and the implemented footprint observation operator. For all operationally used AMSU-A and MHS channels, it is shown that the standard deviation of OmB departures is reduced when the footprint operator is applied. Text Arctic Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Arctic |
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The microwave radiances are key observations especially over data sparse regions for operational data assimilation in numerical weather prediction (NWP). An often applied simplification is that these observations are used as point measurements, however, the satellite field-of-view may cover many grid points of high-resolution models. Therefore, we examine a solution in high-resolution data assimilation to better account for the spatial representation of the radiance observations. This solution is based on a footprint operator implemented and tested in the variational assimilation scheme of the AROME-Arctic (Application of Research to Operations at Mesoscale – Arctic) limited-area model. In this paper, the design and technical challenges of the microwave radiance footprint operator are presented. In particular, implementation strategies, the representation of satellite field-of-view ellipses, and the emissivity retrieval inside the footprint area are discussed. Furthermore, the simulated brightness temperatures and the sub-footprint variability are analysed in a case study indicating particular areas where the use of the footprint operator is expected to provide significant added value. For radiances measured by the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) sensors, the standard deviation of the observation minus background (OmB) departures are computed on a short period in order to compare the statistics of the default and the implemented footprint observation operator. For all operationally used AMSU-A and MHS channels, it is shown that the standard deviation of OmB departures is reduced when the footprint operator is applied. |
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Exploring the footprint representation of microwave radiance observations in an Arctic limited-area data assimilation system |
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