Assessment of the Impact of Observations on Analyses Derived from Observing System Experiments

Lupu, Cristina; Gauthier, Pierre et Laroche, Stéphane (2012). « Assessment of the Impact of Observations on Analyses Derived from Observing System Experiments ». Monthly Weather Review, 140(1), pp. 245-257.

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Observing system experiments (OSEs) are commonly used to quantify the impact of different observation types on forecasts produced by a specific numerical weather prediction system. Recently, methods based on degree of freedom for signal (DFS) have been implemented to diagnose the impact of observations on the analyses. In this paper, the DFS is used as a diagnostic to estimate the amount of information brought by subsets of observations in the context of OSEs. This study is interested in the evaluation of the North American observing networks applied to OSEs performed at the Meteorological Service of Canada for the period of January and February 2007. The relative values of the main observing networks over North America derived from DFS calculations are compared with those from OSEs in which aircraft or radiosonde data have been removed. The results show that removing some observation types from the assimilation system influences the effective weight of the remaining assimilated observations, which may have an increased impact to compensate for the removal of other observations. The response of the remaining observations when a given set of observations is denied is illustrated comparing DFS calculations with the observations’ impact estimated from OSEs.

Type: Article de revue scientifique
Mots-clés ou Sujets: In situ observations, Satellite observations, Variational analysis
Unité d'appartenance: Faculté des sciences > Département des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère
Déposé par: Pierre Gauthier
Date de dépôt: 25 avr. 2016 19:59
Dernière modification: 26 mai 2016 14:14
Adresse URL : http://archipel.uqam.ca/id/eprint/8286

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