Recorded presentation14C.5
Assimilation of Airborne Doppler Radar Data for Hurricane Initialization and Prediction in HWRF
Mingjing Tong, UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber, Q. Liu, S. Lord, W. M. Lapenta, and J. F. Gamache
Airborne Doppler radar data provide high resolution information of hurricane vortex structures. It has great potential to improve hurricane initialization and intensity forecast. The assimilation of airborne Doppler radar radial velocity data into the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast System (HWRF) using the Grid-point Statistical Interpolation (GSI) analysis system has been developing and testing at NCEP/EMC. In this presentation, the assimilation and subsequent track and intensity forecast results will be compared with the operation HWRF run for several hurricane cases. The results of different assimilation strategies will be compared. The impact of assimilating additional data, such as pseudo minimum sea level pressure data and conventional data will also be discussed.
Session 14C, Tropical Cyclone Modeling: Special Observations and Data
Thursday, 13 May 2010, 1:15 PM-3:00 PM, Arizona Ballroom 10-12
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