Satellite Sounder Data Assimilation for Improving Alaska Region Weather Forecast
A case study and monthly statistical analysis using sounder data assimilation to improve the Alaska regional weather forecast model are presented. Weather forecast in Alaska faces challenges as well as opportunities. Alaska has a large land with multiple types of topography and coastal area. Weather...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20140007344 2023-05-15T15:05:02+02:00 Satellite Sounder Data Assimilation for Improving Alaska Region Weather Forecast Zhang, X. Zhu, Jiang Broderson, D. Zavodsky, B. T. Stevens, E. Heinrichs, T. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available February 2, 2014 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20140007344 unknown Document ID: 20140007344 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20140007344 Copyright, Distribution as joint owner in the copyright CASI Meteorology and Climatology M13-3023 2014 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting; 2-6 Feb. 2014; Atlanta, GA; United States 2014 ftnasantrs 2019-07-21T00:30:18Z A case study and monthly statistical analysis using sounder data assimilation to improve the Alaska regional weather forecast model are presented. Weather forecast in Alaska faces challenges as well as opportunities. Alaska has a large land with multiple types of topography and coastal area. Weather forecast models must be finely tuned in order to accurately predict weather in Alaska. Being in the high-latitudes provides Alaska greater coverage of polar orbiting satellites for integration into forecasting models than the lower 48. Forecasting marine low stratus clouds is critical to the Alaska aviation and oil industry and is the current focus of the case study. NASA AIRS/CrIS sounder profiles data are used to do data assimilation for the Alaska regional weather forecast model to improve Arctic marine stratus clouds forecast. Choosing physical options for the WRF model is discussed. Preprocess of AIRS/CrIS sounder data for data assimilation is described. Local observation data, satellite data, and global data assimilation data are used to verify and/or evaluate the forecast results by the MET tools Model Evaluation Tools (MET). Other/Unknown Material Arctic Alaska Cris NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Arctic |
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A case study and monthly statistical analysis using sounder data assimilation to improve the Alaska regional weather forecast model are presented. Weather forecast in Alaska faces challenges as well as opportunities. Alaska has a large land with multiple types of topography and coastal area. Weather forecast models must be finely tuned in order to accurately predict weather in Alaska. Being in the high-latitudes provides Alaska greater coverage of polar orbiting satellites for integration into forecasting models than the lower 48. Forecasting marine low stratus clouds is critical to the Alaska aviation and oil industry and is the current focus of the case study. NASA AIRS/CrIS sounder profiles data are used to do data assimilation for the Alaska regional weather forecast model to improve Arctic marine stratus clouds forecast. Choosing physical options for the WRF model is discussed. Preprocess of AIRS/CrIS sounder data for data assimilation is described. Local observation data, satellite data, and global data assimilation data are used to verify and/or evaluate the forecast results by the MET tools Model Evaluation Tools (MET). |
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Satellite Sounder Data Assimilation for Improving Alaska Region Weather Forecast |
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Satellite Sounder Data Assimilation for Improving Alaska Region Weather Forecast |
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