polar predictability results from the greenland flow distortion experiment ian renfrew emma irvine...
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Polar Predictability results from the Greenland Flow Distortion
Experiment
Ian RenfrewEmma Irvine (U. Reading)
Nina Petersen, Stephen Outten (UEA)Kent Moore (U. Toronto)
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Outline
• Motivation
• Short-range NWP improvements– Case studies of tip jet & barrier winds– analyses validation
• Impact of Targeted Observations
• Conclusions
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Motivation
• Local weather systems– tip jets, barrier winds, lee cyclones, polar lows
• Climate system– thermohaline circulation
• Medium-range weather forecasting– targeted observations
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QuikSCAT climatologyQuikSCAT climatology
Moore and Renfrew 2005, J. Climate
Mean wind speed for DJF 1999-2004Mean wind speed for DJF 1999-2004
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• (Westerly) Tip Jets(Westerly) Tip Jets
GFD: QuikSCAT climatologyGFD: QuikSCAT climatology
Moore and Renfrew 2005, J. Climate
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• Easterly Tip JetsEasterly Tip Jets
GFD: QuikSCAT climatologyGFD: QuikSCAT climatology
Moore and Renfrew 2005, J. Climate
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• Barrier windsBarrier winds
QuikSCAT climatologyQuikSCAT climatology
Moore and Renfrew 2005, J. Climate
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• Field programme: 17 Feb – 12 March 2007• Detachment: Keflavik, Iceland• 62 flight hours + 9 hours (EUFAR)
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Results from case studies
• Accurate NWP hindcast simulations required consideration of– Model setup, grid size, levels, etc– SST– Air-sea-ice interaction– PBL scheme
• Examples:– Tip Jet (21 Feb 2007)– Barrier wind (1-6 March)
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AVHRR Ch 114:35 UTC21 February 2007
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Easterly Tip Jet: 21 Feb• Met Office UM 6.1• 12 km grid & 76 levels• Initialised from Met
Office global analyses
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Easterly Tip Jet: 21 Feb
• Met Office UM 6.1• 12 km grid & 76 levels• Initialised from Met
Office global analyses
Configuration changes:
• z0 over marginal ice zone changed 100mm → 0.5mm
• z0 over sea ice changed 3mm → 0.5mm
• OSTIA high resolution SST & sea-ice field
See Outten et al. 2009,QJRMSAlso Birch et al. 2009, J. Geophys. Res.
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Easterly Tip Jet: 21 Feb • Met Office UM 6.1• 12 km grid & 76 levels• Initialised from Met
Office global analyses
Configuration changes:
• z0 over marginal ice zone changed 100mm → 0.5mm
• z0 over sea ice changed 3mm → 0.5mm
• OSTIA high resolution SST & sea-ice field
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Easterly Tip Jet: 21 Feb
• Met Office UM 6.1• 12 km grid & 76 levels• Initialised from Met
Office global analyses
Configuration changes:
• z0 over marginal ice zone changed 100mm → 0.5mm
• z0 over sea ice changed 3mm → 0.5mm
• OSTIA high resolution SST & sea-ice field
Reasonably accurate simulation:
• 1-2 K and 2-3 m s-1 in ABL
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Easterly Tip Jet: 21 Feb • Met Office UM 6.1• 12 km grid & 76 levels• Initialised from Met
Office global analyses
Configuration changes:
• z0 over marginal ice zone changed 100mm → 0.5mm
• z0 over sea ice changed 3mm → 0.5mm
• OSTIA high resolution SST & sea-ice field
Reasonably accurate simulation:
• 1-2 K and 2-3 m s-1 in ABL
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Barrier Flows: 2 March 2007
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Barrier Flows: 2 March 2007
DS North Cross-section DS South Cross-section
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Barrier Flows: 2 March 2007
DS South Cross-section
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Barrier Flows: Temperature inversions
Sharp elevated temperature inversions not in analysis or forecasts
Due to SBL over Greenland?
Data assimilation will smooth out?
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Barrier Flows: Summary
• Synoptic situation controls wind speed maxima• Barrier effect doubles wind speed• UM simulations ok
– Following sea-ice & SST changes– But fail to capture sharp temp. inversion
See Petersen, Renfrew & Moore, 2009 QJRMS
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Comparison of aircraft-based surface-layer observations
over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea with meteorological analyses and QuikSCAT
winds
I. A. Renfrew, G. N. Petersen, D. A. J. Sproson, G. W. K. Moore, H. Adiwidjaja, S. Zhang, and R.
North(2009, QJRMS)
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Focus on ECMWF Analyses
• Underestimates U10 at highest wind speeds.
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• ECMWF 1.125 deg has a T2m bias of -0.7 K– T511 has no bias.
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• Some ABL temperature discrepancies due to SST– At time 1 deg SST– Now OSTIA
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• Some ABL temperature discrepancies due to SST– At time 0.5 deg SST and sea ice fields– Now OSTIA
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• RH2m well modelled
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• Surface turbulent fluxes are well-modelled, but scatter and biases result in relatively large rms errors.
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ECMWF surface layer comparison
• ECMWF model does not capture the highest wind speeds observed, despite an operational resolution of T799 and archived data at T511/N400 ( 40 km). ∼
• This suggests mesoscale atmospheric flow features are being ‘smoothed out’ in some way (see Chelton et al. 2006).
• At T511/N400, the model produces good estimates for the surface-layer temperature and humidities, despite a large scatter in the SST. But at lower archived resolution (1.125 deg) a bias of −0.7 K in T2m is introduced.
• The ECMWF surface turbulent fluxes correspond reasonably well with the observations
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Targeted Observations in GFDex:• 4 flights• 7 -11 dropsondes per flight• Dropsondes sent to GTS and
assimilated into operational 12Z forecasts
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Targeted Observations in GFDex:• 4 flights• 7 -11 dropsondes per flight• Dropsondes sent to GTS and
assimilated into operational 12Z forecasts
Analysing the results via hindcast experiments:
• Met Office UM 6.1, 24km grid • 4D-VAR data assimilation scheme, 48km grid• North-Atlantic European domain• Control – routine obs. only• Targeted – routine obs. + targeted obs. (dropsondes)
See Irvine et al. 2009, QJRMS – general results of all cases
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Impact of dropsonde data on Greenland coast
ORIGINAL DATASET(targeted sondes)
MODIFIED DATASET (Replaced sondes on Greenland coast with sondes in Denmark Strait)
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Forecast impact with modified dataset (no sondes on Greenland coast)
dashed line = targeted sondes, solid line = all sondesdotted line = MODIFIED DATASET (no sondes near Greenland)
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Why do the dropsondes on the Greenland coast degrade the forecast?
• Sonde data is spread along terrain-following model levels – up steep orography
• See Irvine et al (2010) MWR, in press38
X
Analysis increment in v resulting from assimilation of targeted sonde
X = sonde location
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Conclusions
• To simulate the high winds associated with polar mesoscale weather systems, a model resolution of order 10 km is necessary but is not sufficient; as appropriate ABL, surface layer and surface flux parameterizations are also crucial.
• An accurate prescription of the SST & sea ice is essential.
• In regions relatively close to the sea-ice edge, the current generation of NWP models still have problems in accurately simulating ABL temperature and humidity.
• Global analyses products don’t appear able to capture highest wind speeds (e.g. U10 in ECMWF).
• Targeted observations programme had modest impact on forecasts (5-10%); also highlighted problems with soundings near steep and high orography.
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• Case studies– Obs & dynamics of an easterly tip jet– Obs & modelling of a Greenland lee cyclone– Barrier flows & wakes around Greenland
• Climatological studies– A climatology of westerly tip jets
• Targeted Observations– Impact assessment in collaboration with Met Office
• Air-sea interaction:– Turbulent flux observations– Comparison of obs & NWP models– High-resolution ocean simulations
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Stochastic-dynamic example
Stochastic KE Backscatter scheme (Shutts 2005)
upscale influence of deep convection in mesoscale convective systems and the statistical uncertainty of orographic drag representations
Improves systematic error in the tropics & extratropics (Shutts, 2005, Berner et al. 2008).
400 127 km
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Potential solution: Reject sonde data below 850hPa?
Green line shows an increase in forecast improvement when dropsondes near Greenland have data below 850hPa rejected
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Comparison of model data and sonde data near Greenland
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