Shunji Kotsuki;
Koji Terasaki;
Takemasa Miyoshi
RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science
The 8th EnKF Data Assimilation Workshop
Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation of GPM/DPR Reflectivity into the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model NICAM
Poster:
201805_enkf_kotsuki_01.pdf
This study aims to improve the precipitation forecasts from numerical weather prediction models through effective assimilation of satellite-observed precipitation data. The assimilation of precipitation data is known to be difficult mainly due to highly non-Gaussian statistics of precipitation-related variables involved with complicated cloud processes such as water phase changes. We have been developing a global atmospheric data assimilation system NICAM-LETKF, which comprises the Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM) and Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF). Using the NICAM-LETKF system, Kotsuki et al. (2017, JGR) successfully improved the weather forecasts by assimilating the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA)’s Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) data into the NICAM at 112-km horizontal resolution. However, assimilating space- borne precipitation radar data remains to be a challenging issue.
This study pioneers to assimilate radar reflectivity measured by the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite into the NICAM. We conduct the NICAM-LETKF experiments at 28-km horizontal resolution with explicit cloud microphysics of a single-moment 6-class bulk microphysics scheme. To simulate GPM/DPR reflectivity from NICAM model outputs, the joint-simulator (Hashino et al. 2013; JGR) is used. Our initial tests were promising, showing a better match with the observed reflectivity by assimilating GPM/DPR reflectivity into NICAM forecasts. This presentation will include the most recent progress up to the time of the workshop.
This study aims to improve the precipitation forecasts from numerical weather prediction models through effective assimilation of satellite-observed precipitation data. The assimilation of precipitation data is known to be difficult mainly due to highly non-Gaussian statistics of precipitation-related variables involved with complicated cloud processes such as water phase changes. We have been developing a global atmospheric data assimilation system NICAM-LETKF, which comprises the Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM) and Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF). Using the NICAM-LETKF system, Kotsuki et al. (2017, JGR) successfully improved the weather forecasts by assimilating the Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA)’s Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) data into the NICAM at 112-km horizontal resolution. However, assimilating space- borne precipitation radar data remains to be a challenging issue.
This study pioneers to assimilate radar reflectivity measured by the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) onboard the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite into the NICAM. We conduct the NICAM-LETKF experiments at 28-km horizontal resolution with explicit cloud microphysics of a single-moment 6-class bulk microphysics scheme. To simulate GPM/DPR reflectivity from NICAM model outputs, the joint-simulator (Hashino et al. 2013; JGR) is used. Our initial tests were promising, showing a better match with the observed reflectivity by assimilating GPM/DPR reflectivity into NICAM forecasts. This presentation will include the most recent progress up to the time of the workshop.
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