一个全球海气耦合模式跨季度汛期预测能力的初步检验和评估

文中利用一个全球大气 海洋耦合模式 ,对中国汛期气候异常进行了 1991～ 2 0 0 1年共 11a的跨季度回报试验和检验研究。采用一套多指标的评估方法 ,对该模式的预报性能进行系统的定量评估。结果表明 ,该模式对中国汛期降水和温度及夏季北半球大尺度环流场等都有一定的跨季度预报能力。模式对中国不同区域夏季降水的预测能力有所不同。总的来说 ,模式对中国东部和西部的降水趋势回报较好 ,模式预报好于气候预报和持续性预报。从相关系数指标来看 ,模式跨季度预测夏季温度的技巧在中国西部比中国东部高。     

山东区域汛期旱涝预测概论

对1951－2000年期间汛期（6－8月）山东区域旱涝与全国主要多雨带的8个分布类型的逐年对应关系进行了具体的对比和论述。并对烟台、青岛、潍坊、济南、临沂、菏泽等6个地区汛期旱涝的天文、海洋、大气环流和气象要素等方面的预报物理因子进行了全面的普查、筛选、精选和综合分析，并分别建立了汛期降水量预报物理方程。并以青岛地区为例，对汛期降水理的多种交叉学科的预报物理因子进行了最优集成，为青岛地区和水量和旱涝建立了分多级的可操作的预报物理模型。该文优选出来的汛期降水的多学科物理因子对短期气候预测有重要的学术意义，其中所建立的预报物理方程和预报物理模型对山东省各区汛期旱涝的季度和年度预报有重要的应用价值。     

区域气候模式对中国夏季平均气温和降水的评估分析

使用国家气候中心全球海气耦合模式嵌套区域气候模式(RegCM-NCC)对1983-2002年中国夏季平均气温和降水进行了数值回报试验,并对2003-2007年夏季进行实时预报.从模式20年回报的平均状况来看,模式基本上能够反映出中国夏季气候的平均状况.使用国家气候中心气候预测室的业务预报评分(P)和距平相关系数(ACC)等五个评估参数对模式的回报和预报进行了评估分析,结果表明:该模式对我国夏季平均气温和降水具有一定的跨季度预报能力,部分地区有较好的预报效果.区域气候模式20年夏季平均气温的回报与实况在分布形态上较为相似,回报夏季降水量的分布形态与实况有一定的差异.近25年区域气候模式夏季平均气温预报P评分为67.9分,降水为67.6分.     

中国区域月气候预测方法和预测能力评估

利用我国台站降水和温度观测资料,评估了BCC_AGCM1.0月动力延伸预报的回算和预测、国家气候中心月气候预测业务统计方法、持续性预报以及业务发布预报对中国区域月气候要素的预测能力。结果表明,业务发布月平均温度和降水预测的技巧平均低于动力方法和统计方法的预测结果。温度的持续性预报和最优气候值统计方法预报技巧高于其它统计预报方法,考虑了综合相似特征的统计方法对降水预测有相对的优势。动力延伸预报的三种超前预报时间的预测结果总体高于统计方法,在月气候预测能力上具有明显优势。月尺度预测动力和统计方法评估的年际变化特征表明月降水和温度的可预报性一般在El Nio状态下较高,而在La Nia发生时偏低。     

短期气候预测评估方法和业务初估

根据短期气候预测业务目前的基本现状,提出了短期气候业务预测效果评估的几种参数。使用这些参数对国家气候中心气候预测室近20多年来全国范围月、季、年几种主要预测业务的降水距平百分率和平均气温距平的预测效果进行了初步评估。结果表明,月尺度预报中,温度预报好于降水预报;年度降水预报以对春季预报为最好;汛期降水预报水平有明显提高。     

CWRF降尺度提高BCC_CSM1.1m对中国夏季降水跨季度动力预测能力

利用CWRF模式(Climate-Weather Research and Forecasting model)对国家气候中心BCC_CSM1.1m业务预测模式短期气候预测结果进行中国区域降尺度,并使用1991—2010年3—8月逐日气温降水观测数据评估预测能力。结果表明:CWRF预测地面2 m气温、降水气候平均态的空间分布比BCC_CSM1.1m更接近观测,分布误差更小;在保持总体技巧不低于BCC_CSM1.1m的同时,CWRF对我国华东和华中地区的降水年际变化预测准确率更高;对不同强度的降水预测CWRF表现均优于BCC_CSM1.1 m模式,尤其在极端降水预测准确率上更优。总之,得益于更高的空间分辨率和优化的低空物理过程模拟,CWRF降尺度可以提高中国夏季跨季度降水预测能力。     

2004年夏季短期气候集成预测及检验

分析了2004年夏季东亚大气环流的主要特点及对我国天气与气候的影响.对可能影响2004年夏季中国降水的主要物理因子及其演变的判断基本正确.跨季度预测指出2004年夏季我国大范围严重洪涝事件的可能性不大,6～8月主雨带可能位于黄河中下游与淮河之间;并较好地预测了影响我国的台风数.对2004年夏季跨季度气候预测中存在的问题进行了初步讨论,以便改进和完善中国科学院大气物理研究所短期气候预测系统.     

基于旋转经验正交分解的流域降水气候预测误差订正方法

流域尺度的降水短期气候预测水平对流域的防灾减灾具有重要价值。为了进一步提高中国科学院大气物理研究所新一代大气环流模式IAP AGCM 4.1在淮河和长江流域夏季降水预测效果,利用旋转经验正交分解（Rotated Empirical Orthogonal Function, REOF）方法对两个流域夏季降水区域特征进行分析的基础上,建立了一个适用于流域的分区经验正交分解（Empirical Orthogonal Function, EOF）订正方案,并利用IAP AGCM 4.1气候预测系统在两个流域的夏季降水共30年（1981～2010年）的集合回报试验结果进行了订正试验。结果表明分区订正方法明显改进了模式对淮河流域的夏季降水预测水平,淮河流域的流域平均相关系数从0.03提高到了0.22。对长江流域的季度降水预报也有显著的改进效果,平均相关系数从-0.05提高到0.24。分区订正结果明显优于流域整体订正方案,证明了基于REOF分析确定降水具有强局地性特征的订正区域,能够很好地提高EOF订正方法的效果稳定性,这对其他流域降水预测的订正研究具有很好的借鉴意义。     

用奇异谱分析作汛期降水的中期气候预测

用奇异谱分析方法对哈尔滨汛期降水进行中期气候预测。其结果表明，此方法对汛期降水趋势有较好的预测能力，并且预报效果比较稳定，经5次试报的平均准确率达76％，说明奇异谱分析模式是一种有效的中期气候预测手段，其趋势预测结果可信度高。     

降尺度方法在中国不同区域夏季降水预测中的应用

在中国降水气候分区的基础上,利用降尺度方法进行区域夏季降水预测(RSPP),预测模型建立的基础是寻找影响区域气候的关键因子。降尺度预测模型中使用的资料有国家气候中心海-气耦合模式(CGCM/NCC)回报资料、NCEP/NCAR再分析资料和台站观测资料。为了避免年代际变化特征对季节尺度降水预测的影响,首先对CGCM/NCC模式输出资料、NCEP/NCAR再分析资料、区域平均降水资料去除年代际线性变化趋势,即去除所有预报因子场和预报对象场的长期变化趋势。然后分别计算预报对象和模式资料的预报因子场以及再分析资料的预报因子场的相关系数,把相关系数值同时达到0.05显著性检验水平的区域平均环流特征作为预测因子,保证挑选出的预测因子既能反映实际大气中预测因子与预报对象的关系,同时又是海-气耦合模式预测的高技巧信息。利用最优子集回归作为转换函数的降尺度方法建立区域夏季降水预测模型。交叉检验和独立样本检验结果表明,文中设计的区域夏季降水预测模型对中国大部分地区的夏季降水趋势预测的准确率较高且比较稳定,其预测效果远高于CGCM/NCC直接输出降水结果。进一步对具有较高预测技巧的代表性区域的可预报性来源分析发现,物理意义明确且独立性强的预测因子有助于提高预测准确率。     

Comparison of extended medium-range forecast skill between KMA ensemble,ocean coupled ensemble,and GloSea5

This article describes a three way inter-comparison of forecast skill on an extended medium-range time scale using the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) operational ensemble numerical weather prediction (NWP) systems (i.e., atmosphere-only global ensemble prediction system (EPSG) and ocean-atmosphere coupledEPSG) and KMA operational seasonal prediction system, the Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5). The main motivation is to investigate whether the ensemble NWP system can provide advantage over the existing seasonal prediction system for the extended medium-range forecast (30 days) even with putting extra resources in extended integration or coupling with ocean with NWP system. Two types of evaluation statistics are examined: the basic verification statistics - the anomaly correlation and RMSE of 500-hPa geopotential height and 1.5-meter surface temperature for the global and East Asia area, and the other is the Real-time Multivariate Madden and Julian Oscillation (MJO) indices (RMM1 and RMM2) - which is used to examine the MJO prediction skill. The MJO is regarded as a main source of forecast skill in the tropics linked to the mid-latitude weather on monthly time scale. Under limited number of experiment cases, the coupled NWP extends the forecast skill of the NWP by a few more days, and thereafter such forecast skill is overtaken by that of the seasonal prediction system. At present stage, it seems there is little gain from the coupled NWP even though more resources are put into it. Considering this, the best combination of numerical product guidance for operational forecasters for an extended medium-range is extension of the forecast lead time of the current ensemble NWP (EPSG) up to 20 days and use of the seasonal prediction system (GloSea5) forecast thereafter, though there exists a matter of consistency between the two systems.     

基于LSTM网络的中国夏季降水预测研究

基于BCC-CSM季节气候预测模式系统历史回报数据和国家气象信息中心提供的中国地面降水月值数据,通过多方法对比并讨论了影响预测结果的因素,利用长短期记忆（Long Short-Term Memory,LSTM）网络预测2014年和2015年中国夏季降水。结果表明:LSTM网络的预测效果较逐步回归、BP神经网络及模式输出结果有一定优势。参数调优对于LSTM网络预测效果影响较大,重要参数有隐含层节点数、训练次数和学习率。选择合适的起报月份数据有助于提升季节预测的准确性,利用4月起报的数据预测夏季降水效果较好。海冰分量因子对降水季节预测有正贡献。在2014年、2015年夏季降水回报试验中,LSTM网络对降水整体形势有一定的预测能力,Ps评分分别为74分、71分,距平符号一致率分别为55.63%、55.25%,Ps评分的均值高于同期全国会商及业务模式。     

我国短期气候预测技术进展

经过近60年的发展,我国短期气候预测技术和方法也有了长足进步。近年来,一些新的预报技术和机理认识不断应用于短期气候预测业务。ARGO海洋观测资料的使用大大提高了业务模式的预测技巧,新一代气候预测模式系统已经投入准业务化运行,研发了多种模式降尺度释用技术,多模式气候预测产品解释应用集成系统(MODES)和动力-统计结合的季节预测系统(FODAS)逐渐应用于业务中,大气季节内振荡(MJO)逐步在延伸期预报中得到应用。近年来,对全球海洋、北极海冰、欧亚积雪、南半球环流系统对东亚季风影响的新认识也不断引入到短期气候预测业务中。这些新技术和新认识的应用极大提高了我国短期气候预测的业务能力。     

Seasonal climate prediction for South America with FSU Multi-model Synthetic Superensemble algorithm

Summary Objective combination schemes of predictions from different models have been applied to seasonal climate forecasts. These schemes are successful in producing a deterministic forecast superior to individual member models and better than the multi-model ensemble mean forecast. Recently, a variant of the conventional superensemble formulation was created to improve skills for seasonal climate forecasts, the Florida State University (FSU) Synthetic Superensemble. The idea of the synthetic algorithm is to generate a new data set from the predicted multimodel datasets for multiple linear regression. The synthetic data is created from the original dataset by finding a consistent spatial pattern between the observed analysis and the forecast data set. This procedure is a multiple linear regression problem in EOF space. The main contribution this paper is to discuss the feasibility of seasonal prediction based on the synthetic superensemble approach and to demonstrate that the use of this method in coupled models dataset can reduce the errors of seasonal climate forecasts over South America. In this study, a suite of FSU coupled atmospheric oceanic models was used. In evaluation the results from the FSU synthetic superensemble demonstrate greater skill for most of the variables tested here. The forecast produced by the proposed method out performs other conventional forecasts. These results suggest that the methodology and database employed are able to improve seasonal climate prediction over South America when compared to the use of single climate models or from the conventional ensemble averaging. The results show that anomalous conditions simulated over South America are reasonably realistic. The negative (positive) precipitation anomalies for the summer monsoon season of 1997/98 (2001/02) were predicted by Synthetic Superensemble formulation quite well. In summary, the forecast produced by the Synthetic Superensemble approach outperforms the other conventional forecasts.     

BCC二代气候系统模式的季节预测评估和可预报性分析

本文利用国家气候中心（BCC）第二代季节预测模式系统历史回报数据,从确定性预报和概率预报两个方面系统地评估了该模式对气温、降水和大气环流的季节预报性能,并与BCC一代气候预测模式的结果进行了对比,重点分析了二代模式的季节可预报性问题。结果显示,BCC二代模式对全球气温、降水和环流的预报性能整体上优于一代模式,特别在热带中东太平洋、印度洋和海洋大陆地区的温度和降水的预报效果改进尤为明显。这些热带地区降水预报的改进,可以通过激发太平洋—北美型（PNA）、东亚—太平洋型（EAP）等遥相关波列提升该模式在中高纬地区的季节预报技巧。分析表明,厄尔尼诺和南方涛动（ENSO）信号在热带和热带外地区均是模式季节可预报性的重要来源,BCC二代模式能够较好把握全球大气环流对ENSO信号的响应特征,从而通过对ENSO预报技巧的改进有效地提升了模式整体的预报性能。从概率预报来看,BCC二代模式对我国冬季气温和夏季降水具备一定的预报能力,特别是对我国东部大部分地区冬季气温正异常和负异常事件预报的可靠性和辨析度相对较高。因此,进一步提高模式对热带大尺度异常信号和大气主要模态的预报能力、加强概率预报产品释用对提高季节气候预测水平具有重要意义。     

Evaluation of summer temperature and precipitation predictions from NCEP CFSv2 retrospective forecast over China

National Centers for Environmental Prediction recently upgraded its operational seasonal forecast system to the fully coupled climate modeling system referred to as CFSv2. CFSv2 has been used to make seasonal climate forecast retrospectively between 1982 and 2009 before it became operational. In this study, we evaluate the model’s ability to predict the summer temperature and precipitation over China using the 120 9-month reforecast runs initialized between January 1 and May 26 during each year of the reforecast period. These 120 reforecast runs are evaluated as an ensemble forecast using both deterministic and probabilistic metrics. The overall forecast skill for summer temperature is high while that for summer precipitation is much lower. The ensemble mean reforecasts have reduced spatial variability of the climatology. For temperature, the reforecast bias is lead time-dependent, i.e., reforecast JJA temperature become warmer when lead time is shorter. The lead time dependent bias suggests that the initial condition of temperature is somehow biased towards a warmer condition. CFSv2 is able to predict the summer temperature anomaly in China, although there is an obvious upward trend in both the observation and the reforecast. Forecasts of summer precipitation with dynamical models like CFSv2 at the seasonal time scale and a catchment scale still remain challenge, so it is necessary to improve the model physics and parameterizations for better prediction of Asian monsoon rainfall. The probabilistic skills of temperature and precipitation are quite limited. Only the spatially averaged quantities such as averaged summer temperature over the Northeast China of CFSv2 show higher forecast skill, of which is able to discriminate between event and non-event for three categorical forecasts. The potential forecast skill shows that the above and below normal events can be better forecasted than normal events. Although the shorter the forecast lead time is, the higher deterministic prediction skill appears, the probabilistic prediction skill does not increase with decreased lead time. The ensemble size does not play a significant role in affecting the overall probabilistic forecast skill although adding more members improves the probabilistic forecast skill slightly.     

上海梅汛期候降水异常的低频信号及延伸期预报

提高汛期降水过程的延伸期预报能力是目前天气预报和气候预测发展的重要方向。本文以上海梅汛期降水为例,利用非传统滤波方法提取多变量季节内分量,分析了梅汛期季节内候降水异常及其相联系的延伸期关键低频信号,进一步综合多变量低频信号建立了梅汛期候降水异常延伸期预报方法,并开展了多年的回报和试报检验。结果表明:①梅汛期候降水异常季节内分量具有显著的40～60d低频振荡周期,与降水异常实况具有显著的正相关和较高的符号一致率;②梅汛期季节内候降水异常与超前10～35d的热带及中高纬低频信号有关,主要包括:热带MJO(Madden Julian Oscillation)自阿拉伯海的向东传播、西太平洋副热带高压季节内活动的西北向传播、PNA(Pacific-North American)遥相关型的季节内位相转换以及东北亚冷空气的持续性异常影响;③综合上述多变量低频信号建立了延伸期候降水异常预报模型,对提前10～35d的延伸期候降水异常的季节内分量具有预报技巧,也能较好地预报实际的候降水异常趋势。     

Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

We assessed current status of multi-model ensemble (MME) deterministic and probabilistic seasonal prediction based on 25-year (1980–2004) retrospective forecasts performed by 14 climate model systems (7 one-tier and 7 two-tier systems) that participate in the Climate Prediction and its Application to Society (CliPAS) project sponsored by the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center (APCC). We also evaluated seven DEMETER models’ MME for the period of 1981–2001 for comparison. Based on the assessment, future direction for improvement of seasonal prediction is discussed. We found that two measures of probabilistic forecast skill, the Brier Skill Score (BSS) and Area under the Relative Operating Characteristic curve (AROC), display similar spatial patterns as those represented by temporal correlation coefficient (TCC) score of deterministic MME forecast. A TCC score of 0.6 corresponds approximately to a BSS of 0.1 and an AROC of 0.7 and beyond these critical threshold values, they are almost linearly correlated. The MME method is demonstrated to be a valuable approach for reducing errors and quantifying forecast uncertainty due to model formulation. The MME prediction skill is substantially better than the averaged skill of all individual models. For instance, the TCC score of CliPAS one-tier MME forecast of Niño 3.4 index at a 6-month lead initiated from 1 May is 0.77, which is significantly higher than the corresponding averaged skill of seven individual coupled models (0.63). The MME made by using 14 coupled models from both DEMETER and CliPAS shows an even higher TCC score of 0.87. Effectiveness of MME depends on the averaged skill of individual models and their mutual independency. For probabilistic forecast the CliPAS MME gains considerable skill from increased forecast reliability as the number of model being used increases; the forecast resolution also increases for 2 m temperature but slightly decreases for precipitation. Equatorial Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies are primary sources of atmospheric climate variability worldwide. The MME 1-month lead hindcast can predict, with high fidelity, the spatial–temporal structures of the first two leading empirical orthogonal modes of the equatorial SST anomalies for both boreal summer (JJA) and winter (DJF), which account for about 80–90% of the total variance. The major bias is a westward shift of SST anomaly between the dateline and 120°E, which may potentially degrade global teleconnection associated with it. The TCC score for SST predictions over the equatorial eastern Indian Ocean reaches about 0.68 with a 6-month lead forecast. However, the TCC score for Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) index drops below 0.40 at a 3-month lead for both the May and November initial conditions due to the prediction barriers across July, and January, respectively. The MME prediction skills are well correlated with the amplitude of Niño 3.4 SST variation. The forecasts for 2 m air temperature are better in El Niño years than in La Niña years. The precipitation and circulation are predicted better in ENSO-decaying JJA than in ENSO-developing JJA. There is virtually no skill in ENSO-neutral years. Continuing improvement of the one-tier climate model’s slow coupled dynamics in reproducing realistic amplitude, spatial patterns, and temporal evolution of ENSO cycle is a key for long-lead seasonal forecast. Forecast of monsoon precipitation remains a major challenge. The seasonal rainfall predictions over land and during local summer have little skill, especially over tropical Africa. The differences in forecast skills over land areas between the CliPAS and DEMETER MMEs indicate potentials for further improvement of prediction over land. There is an urgent need to assess impacts of land surface initialization on the skill of seasonal and monthly forecast using a multi-model framework.     

不同区域海温异常对中国夏季旱涝影响的诊断研究和预测试验

利用季降水异常的典型集合相关预测模式, 研究了前期和同期不同季节全球海表温度距平场与中国夏季旱涝的遥相关分布特征以及这种相关型随季节的变化, 揭示了全球海温的异常变化在中国夏季旱涝中的信号特征.研究表明, 全球不同区域海温对我国夏季降水的影响存在着明显的季节差异.全球特定的海温分布可以作为中国夏季旱涝预报的信号因子.选取不同区域及不同时段的海温场作为因子场分别对1998、 1999年这两个典型年份的我国夏季降水进行了诊断研究和预测试验, 并通过不同区域海温的影响权重做集成预测.试验结果表明:不同区域海温的集成预测不仅可以有效地提高预测的准确性, 而且可以揭示不同时段不同区域海温的异常变化在夏季旱涝中的强信号现象.     

An Ensemble Seasonal Forecast of Human Cases of St. Louis Encephalitis in Florida Based on Seasonal Hydrologic Forecasts

We present a method for the ensemble seasonal prediction of human St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) incidence and SLE virus transmission in Florida. We combine empirical relationships between modeled land surface wetness and the incidence of human clinical cases of SLE and modeled land surface wetness and the occurrence of SLE virus transmission throughout south Florida with a previously developed method for generating ensemble, seasonal hydrologic forecasts. Retrospective seasonal forecasts of human SLE incidence are made for Indian River County, Florida, and forecast skill is demonstrated for 2–4 months. A sample seasonal forecast of human SLE incidence is presented. This study establishes the skill of a potential component of an operational SLE forecast system in south Florida, one that provides information well in advance of transmission and may enable early interventions that reduce transmission. Future development of this method and operational application of these forecasts are discussed. The methodology also will be applied to West Nile virus monitoring and forecasting.