Affiliation:
1. Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract
Abstract
In data assimilation for NWP, accurate estimation of error covariance matrices (ECMs) and their use are essential to improve NWP accuracy. The objective of this study is to estimate ECMs of all observations and background variables using sampling statistics, and improve global NWP accuracy by using them. This study presents the first results of such all ECM refinement. ECM diagnostics combining multiple methods, and analysis and forecast cycle experiments were performed on the JMA global NWP system, where diagonal components of all ECMs and off-diagonal components of radiance observations are refined. The ECM diagnostic results are as follows: 1) the diagnosed error standard deviations (SDs) are generally much smaller than those of the JMA operational system (CNTL); 2) interchannel correlations in humidity-sensitive radiance errors are much larger than 0.2; and 3) horizontal correlation distances of AMSU-A are ~50 km, excluding channel 4. The experimental results include the following: 1) the diagnosed ECMs generally improve forecast accuracy over CNTL even without additional tunings; 2) the supplemental tuning parameter, which is the deflation factor (0.6 in SD) applied for the estimated ECMs of nonsatellite conventional data and GPS radio occultation data, statistically significantly improves forecast accuracy; 3) this value 0.6 is set as the same value as the ratio of the estimated background error SD to that in CNTL; 4) high-density assimilation (10 times) of AMSU-A is better than CNTL, not better than that with 5 times; and 5) ECMs estimated using boreal summer data can improve forecast accuracy in winter, which indicates their robustness.
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
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3 articles.
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