Assimilation of GPS radio occultation data for an intense atmospheric river with the NCEP regional GSI system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2170-2183

  Ma, Zaizhong ^a,b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b   Ralph, F Martin ^c   Neiman, Paul J ^c   Wick, Gary A ^c   Sukovich, Ellen ^c   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Global positioning systems (GPS); Occultation; Rivers; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; CHALLENGING MINISATELLITE PAYLOADS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; DATA ASSIMILATION; EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN; GRID SIZE; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; LANDFALLING; MESOSCALE FORECASTS; MESOSCALE NUMERICAL MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; NONLOCAL; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCCULTATION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PHASE OBSERVATIONS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; ROBUST ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; TORRENTIAL RAINFALLS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WEST COAST; WESTERN EUROPE;

COSMOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; IONOSPHERE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RAIN; RIVERS; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 79955155903     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3342.1     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Ahmad, B., and G. L. Tyler, 1998: The two-dimensional resolution kernel associated with retrieval of ionospheric and atmospheric refractivity profiles by Abelian inversion of radio occultation phase data. Radio Sci., 33, 129-142.
2. Anthes, R. A., and Coauthors, 2008: The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission: Early results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 313-333.
3. Bao, J.-W., S. A. Michelson, P. J. Neiman, F. M. Ralph, and J. M. Wilczak, 2006: Interpretation of enhanced integrated water-vapor bands associated with extratropical cyclones: Their formation and connection to tropicalmoisture.Mon.Wea. Rev., 134, 1063-1080.
4. Bernardet, L., and Coauthors, 2008: The Developmental Testbed Center and its winter forecasting experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, 611-627.
5. Cucurull, L., L. C. Derber, R. Treadon, and R. J. Purser, 2007: Assimilation of global positioning system radio occultation observations into NCEP's Global Data Assimilation System. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3174-3193.
6. Daly, C., R. P. Neilson, and D. L. Phillips, 1994: A statisticaltopographic model for mapping climatological precipitation over mountainous terrain. J. Appl. Meteor., 33, 140-158.
7. Hajj, G. A., and Coauthors, 2004: CHAMP and SAC-C atmospheric occultation results and intercomparisons. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D06109, doi:10.1029/2003JD003909.
8. Hollinger, J. P., J. L. Perirce, and G. A. Poe, 1990: SSM/I instrument evaluation. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 28, 781-790.
9. Kuo, Y.-H., S. V. Sokolovskiy, R.A. Anthes, and F. Vandenberghe, 2000: Assimilation of GPS radio occultation data for numerical weather prediction. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 11, 157-186.
10. Kuo, Y.-H., T.-K. Wee, S. Sokolovskiy, C. Rocken,W. Schreiner,D.Hunt, and R. A. Anthes, 2004: Inversion and error estimation of GPS radio occultation data. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82, 507-531.
11. Kuo, Y.-H., H. Liu, Y.-R. Guo, C.-T. Terng, and Y.-T. Lin, 2009: Impact of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC data on typhoon and mei-yu prediction. Recent Progress in Atmospheric Sciences: Applications to the Asia-Pacific Region, K.-N. Liou and M.-D. Chou, Eds., World Scientific, 458-483.
12. Liu, H., J. L. Anderson, Y. H. Kuo, C. Snyder, and A. Caya, 2008: Evaluation of a nonlocal quasi-phase observation operator in assimilation of CHAMP radio occultation refractivity with WRF. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 242-256.
13. Ma, Z., Y.-H. Kuo, B. Wang, W.-S. Wu, and S. Sokolovskiy, 2009: Comparison of local and nonlocal observation operators for the assimilation of GPS RO data with the NCEP GSI system: An OSSE study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 3575-3587.
14. Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, Y.-H. Kuo, T.-K. Wee, Z. Ma, G. H. Taylor, and M. D. Dettinger, 2008a: Diagnosis of an intense atmospheric river impacting the Pacific Northwest: Storm summary and offshore vertical structure observed with COSMIC satellite retrievals. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4398-4420.
15. Neiman, P. J., F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, J. Lundquist, and M. D. Dettinger, 2008b: Meteorological characteristics and overland precipitation impacts of atmospheric rivers affecting the West Coast of North America based on eight years of SSM/I satellite observations. J. Hydrometeor., 9, 22-47.
16. Parrish, D. F., and J. C. Derber, 1992: The National Meteorological Center's spectral statistical-interpolation analysis system. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 1747-1763.
17. Phinney, R. A., and D. L. Anderson, 1968: On the radio occultation method for studying planetary atmospheres. J. Geophys. Res., 73 (5), 1819-1827.
18. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, and G. A. Wick, 2004: Satellite and CALJET aircraft observations of atmospheric rivers over the eastern North Pacific Ocean during the winter of 1997/98. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1721-1745.
19. Ralph, F. M., and Coauthors, 2005: Improving short-term (0-48 hour) coolseason quantitative precipitation forecasting:Recommendations from a USWRP workshop. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 1619-1632.
20. Ralph, F. M., P. J. Neiman, G. A. Wick, S. I. Gutman, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, and A. B. White, 2006: Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026689.
21. Ralph, F. M., E. Sukovich, D. Reynolds,M. Dettinger, S.Weagle, W. Clark, and P. J. Neiman, 2010: Assessment of extreme quantitative precipitation forecasts and development of regional extreme event thresholds using data from HMT-2006 and COOP observers. J. Hydrometeor., 11, 1286-1304.
22. Rocken, C., Y. H. Kuo, W. S. Schreiner, D. Hunt, S. Sokolovskiy, and C. McCormick, 2000: COSMIC system description. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 11, 21-52.
23. Skamarock, W. C., J. B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D. O. Gill, D. M. Barker, W. Wang, and J. G. Powers, 2005:Adescription of the advanced research WRF version 2. NCAR Tech. Note NCAR/TN-4681STR, 100 pp.
24. Smith, E. K., and S. Weintraub, 1953: The constants in the equation for atmospheric refractivity index at radio frequencies. Proc. IRE, 41, 1035-1037.
25. Sokolovskiy, S., Y. H. Kuo, and W. Wang, 2005a: Assessing the accuracy of a linearized observation operator for assimilation of the Abel-retrieved refractivity: Case simulation with high-resolution weather model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2200-2212.
26. Sokolovskiy, S., Y. H. Kuo, and W. Wang, 2005b: Evaluation of a linear phase observation operator withCHAMPradio occultation data and highresolution regional analysis. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 3053-3059.
27. Sokolovskiy, S., Y.-H. Kuo, C. Rocken, W. S. Schreiner, D. Hunt, and R. A. Anthes, 2006: Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer by GPS radio occultation signals recorded in the openloop mode. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12813, doi:10.1029/2006GL025955.
28. Stohl, A., C. Forster, and H. Sodemann, 2008: Remote sources of water vapor forming precipitation on the Norwegian west coast at 60°N-A tale of hurricanes and an atmospheric river. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D05102, doi:10.1029/2007JD009006.
29. Ware, M., and Coauthors, 1996: GPS sounding of the atmosphere from low earth orbit: Preliminary results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 19-40.
30. Wentz, F. J., 1995: The intercomparison of 53 SSM/I water vapor algorithms. Remote Sensing Systems Tech. Rep., 19 pp.
31. Wickert, J., and Coauthors, 2001: Atmosphere sounding by GPS radio occultation: First results from CHAMP. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (17), 3263-3266.
32. Wick, G. A., Y.-H. Kuo, F. M. Ralph, T.-K. Wee, and P. J. Neiman, 2008: Intercomparison of integrated water vapor retrievals from SSM/I and COSMIC. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L21805, doi:10.1029/2008GL035126.
33. Wu,W.-S., R. J. Purser, and D. F. Parrish, 2002: Three-dimensional variational analysis with spatially inhomogeneous covariances. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2905-2916.