Affiliation:
1. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
2. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
3. NOAA/National Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida
Abstract
Abstract
The Prediction of Intensity Model Error (PRIME) forecasting scheme uses various large-scale meteorological parameters as well as proxies for initial condition uncertainty and atmospheric flow stability to provide operational forecasts of tropical cyclone intensity forecast error. PRIME forecasts of bias and absolute error are developed for the Logistic Growth Equation Model (LGEM), Decay Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (DSHP), Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting Interpolated Model (HWFI), and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Interpolated Hurricane Model (GHMI). These forecasts are evaluated in the Atlantic and east Pacific basins for the 2011–15 hurricane seasons. PRIME is also trained with retrospective forecasts (R-PRIME) from the 2015 version of each model. PRIME error forecasts are significantly better than forecasts that use error climatology for a majority of forecast hours, which raises the question of whether PRIME could provide more than error guidance. PRIME bias forecasts for each model are used to modify intensity forecasts, and the corrected forecasts are compared with the original intensity forecasts. For almost all basins, forecast intervals, and versions of PRIME, the bias-corrected forecasts achieve significantly lower errors than the original intensity forecasts. PRIME absolute error and bias forecasts are also used to create unique ensembles of the four models. These PRIME-modified ensembles are found to frequently outperform the intensity consensus (ICON), the equally weighted ensemble of DSHP, LGEM, GHMI, and HWFI.
Funder
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
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