probabilistic qpf steve amburn, soo wfo tulsa, oklahoma
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Probabilistic QPFProbabilistic QPF
Steve Amburn, SOO
WFO Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Preview
• Product review– Graphic and text
• Forecaster involvement
• Examples of rainfall distributions
• Theory and Definitions
• Comparisons– To previous work– To real events
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How do we distribute PQPF information?
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Bar Chart – Osage County Average
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Distribute of text information
6-hr PoP = 70%
6-hr QPF = 0.82
Probability to exceed 0.10” = 67%Probability to exceed 0.50” = 46%Probability to exceed 1.00” = 30%Probability to exceed 2.00” = 12%
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Premise
1. Rainfall events are typically characterized by a distribution or variety of rainfall amounts.
2. Every distribution has a mean.
3. Data indicates most rainfall events have exponential or gamma distributions.
4. Forecast the mean, and you forecast the distribution.
5. That forecast distribution lets us calculate exceedance probabilities (POEs), i.e., the probabilistic QPF.
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Characteristics of POE Method for Probabilistic QPF (exponential distributions)
• As mean increases POE increases
Probability to Exceed rainfall amounts for a mean value Mu
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Forecaster Involvement
• No additional workload– No extra grids to edit– No extra time to create the products
• Forecasters simply issue their QPF, given the more specific definition.
• New QPF definition ~ Old QPF definition
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Gamma Distribution
• “There are a variety of continuous distributions that are bounded on the left by zero and positively skewed. One commonly used choice, used especially often for representing precipitation data, is the gamma distribution. ...”
D.S. Wilks (1995), Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Academic Press, pp. 467.
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Gamma Distributions
blue line => α =1
red line => α =2 black line => α =3
exponential distribution (special case of gamma)
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Individual Spring Events Spring Precip Frequencies Data
81 rainfall events
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Individual Summer EventsSummer Precip Frequencies Data
122 rainfall events
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Individual Autumn Events
Autumn Precip Frequencies Data92 rainfall events
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Individual Winter EventsWinter Precip Frequencies Data
81 rainfall events
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Gamma Distribution? YesUsually, the Exponential Distribution
• Over time at a point (TUL, FSM...)• For individual events (nearly 700)
• Virtually all were exponential distributions• A few were other forms of gamma distribution
• Let’s look at the math...
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Gamma Function
The gamma function is defined by:
Г(α) = ∫ x (α-1) e-x dx
,for α > 0 , for 0 → ∞.
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Gamma Distributions
blue line => α =1
red line => α =2 black line => α =3
exponential distribution (special case of gamma)
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Gamma Function for α = 1
1)Г(α) = ∫ x (α-1) e-x dx ,for α > 0 , for 0 → ∞.
So, for α = 1,
Г(1) = ∫ X(1-1) e-x dx
= ∫ e-x dx = - e-∞ - (-e-0) = 0 + 1
Г(1) = 1.
0
∞
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Gamma PDF Exponential PDF
Now, for α = 1, gamma distribution PDF simplifies. f(x) = { 1 / [ βα Γ(α) ] } • xα-1 e-x/β, (gamma density function)
So, substituting α = 1 yields:
f(x) = { 1 / [ β1 Γ(1) ] } • x1-1 e-x/β
or,
f(x) = (1/β) • e-x/β, (exponential density function)
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POE for theExponential Distribution
So, to find the probability to exceed a value “x”, we integrate from x to infinity (∞).
f(x) = POE(x) = ∫ (1/β) • e-x/β , from x → ∞. = -e-∞/β - (-e-x/β ) = 0 + e-x/β
so,
POE(x) = e-x/β ,where β = mean
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Unconditional POE
Simply multiply conditional POE by PoP,
6) uPOE(x) = PoP x (e-x/μ )
, where μ is the conditional QPF.
Consider, the NWS PoP = uPOE (0.005)
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Individual event examples
• Data from ABRFC – 4578 HRAP grid boxes in TSA CWFA.
• Rainfall distributions created
• Means calculated
• POEs calculated from observed data
• Actual means used to calculate POEs from PDFs (formula)
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Actual POE = computed from the observed data.
Perfect POE = computed using the exponential equation and the observed mean
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uPOE for 8/22/06
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Climo POE
Perfect POE
Rainfall Frequency by Bin
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Actual POE = computed from the observed data
Perfect POE = computed using the exponential equation and the observed mean
Climo POE = exp equation with climatological mean
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Actual POE = computed from the observed data
Exponential Eq = computed using the exponential equation and the observed mean
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Using integrated exponential distribution (gamma distribution where alpha = 1) to compute POE.
POE using integrated exponential distribution and climatological mean precipitation.
Actual POE computed from frequency data shown below.
uPOE for 9/18/06
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Perfect POE
Climo POE
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POE from exponential distribution (gamma distribution, alpha = 1).
Actual POE computed from frequency data shown below.
POE using integrated gamma distribution (alpha=3)
uPOE for 9/18/06
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Perfect POE
Gamma (a=3)
Climo POE
POE using integrated exponential distribution and climatological mean precipitation.
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Gamma Distribution
Gamma function is defined by: Г(α) = x (α-1) e-x dx ,for α > 0 , for 0 → ∞.
Gamma density function is given by:
f(x) = 1
β • Γ(α)
_________ • (xα-1 • e –x/β )[ ]
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Gamma Distribution, A = 3
f(x) = 1
β • Γ(α)
_________ • (xα-1 • e –x/β )[ ]
Then, integrate, for α =3, from x to infinity to obtain the probability of exceedance for x.
POE(x) =(0.5)•(e –x/β)•(x2/β + 2x/β + 2)
,where β = µ/α = (qpf / 3)
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Gamma, where a=3
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Gamma, where a=3
Frequency Distribution, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pmUncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Exceedance Probabilities, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pm Uncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Gamma (a=3)
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Gamma, where a=3
Frequency Distribution, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pmUncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Exceedance Probabilities, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pm Uncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Actual POE
Perfect POE
Gamma (a=3)
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Gamma, where a=3
Frequency Distribution, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pmUncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Exceedance Probabilities, 4/1/2008, ending 7 pm Uncond Mean QPE = 1.01", Coverage = 97%
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Perfect POE
Gamma (a=3)
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Error in Exceedance Calculations (419 events)
• Calculated at: 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 1.0, 1.5”
Areal Coverage
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Error in Exceedance Calculations (279 events)
• Calculated at: 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 inches
Areal Coverage
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Summary1. Rainfall events have distributions
1. Typically exponential
2. Gamma for coverage > 90%
2. Each distribution has a mean. 1. Mean can be spatial for a single event
2. Mean can be at a point over a period of time
3. Forecast the mean (QPF) and you have effectively forecast the distribution.
4. So, QPF lets us calculate probabilities of exceedance, or PQPF.
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Questions?
Steve Amburn, SOO
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