Impact of the Time Scale of Model Sensitivity Response on Coupled Model Parameter Estimation

That a model has sensitivity responses to parameter uncertainties is a key concept in implementing model parameter estimation using filtering theory and methodology.Depending on the nature of associated physics and characteristic variability of the fluid in a coupled system,the response time scales of a model to parameters can be different,from hourly to decadal.Unlike state estimation,where the update frequency is usually linked with observational frequency,the update frequency for parameter estimation must be associated with the time scale of the model sensitivity response to the parameter being estimated.Here,with a simple coupled model,the impact of model sensitivity response time scales on coupled model parameter estimation is studied.The model includes characteristic synoptic to decadal scales by coupling a long-term varying deep ocean with a slow-varying upper ocean forced by a chaotic atmosphere.Results show that,using the update frequency determined by the model sensitivity response time scale,both the reliability and quality of parameter estimation can be improved significantly,and thus the estimated parameters make the model more consistent with the observation.These simple model results provide a guideline for when real observations are used to optimize the parameters in a coupled general circulation model for improving climate analysis and prediction initialization.     

P-σ坐标区域气候模式的垂直分辨率对模拟结果的影响

在原五层P σ坐标模式的基础上 ,发展了一个九层 1°× 1°P σ坐标区域气候模式 ,并用多年平均的NCEP再分析资料月平均场与五层模式进行了模拟对比检验。对比检验表明 ,改进后的九层模式对高度场、温度场及降水场的模拟均要优于原五层模式。对于风场的模拟 ,在冬季对流层中下层 ,九层模式的模拟要好于五层模式 ,夏季九层模式的模拟不如五层模式。但总的来讲 ,垂直分辨率的提高对P σ坐标模式的模拟具有较显著的改进效果 ,这为进一步发展区域海气耦合模式打下了基础     

异模式嵌套及中期降水数值预报的试验

成功地将一有限区域细网格模式嵌套在T63L9全球谱模式中，并利用该嵌套模式 做了降水中期数值预报的试验。结果表明，嵌套的细网格模式预报的中期降水明显地优于该谱模式，要做好中期降水预报，使用嵌套模式是必要的。     

RegCM-Dust模式对东亚一次沙尘暴天气过程模拟的效果检验

为检验区域气候模式与沙尘模式耦合模式RegCM Dust的性能,以2006年东亚地区一次沙尘暴过程为例,将模拟结果与观测资料进行对比,以检验模式对沙尘天气过程的模拟能力。结果表明：模式对沙尘暴过程的地面风场特征模拟效果较好,总体上重现了大风区的分布;地面沙尘浓度和沙尘光学厚度模拟结果与观测分布总体吻合。模式虽然是区域气候模式与沙尘模式耦合模式,但由于其内核是建立在中尺度数值模式MM4基础上,因此对天气过程尤其是沙尘天气过程具备较好的把握能力,对于沙尘天气过程预测具有良好的应用前景。     

Evaluation of forecast strategies for seasonal and decadal forecasts in presence of systematic model errors

This study discusses and compares three different strategies used to deal with model error in seasonal and decadal forecasts. The strategies discussed are the so-called full initialisation, anomaly initialisation and flux correction. In the full initialisation the coupled model is initialised to a state close to the real-world attractor and after initialisation the model drifts towards its own attractor, giving rise to model bias. The anomaly initialisation aims to initialise the model close to its own attractor, by initialising only the anomalies. The flux correction strategy aims to keep the model trajectory close to the real-world attractor by adding empirical corrections. These three strategies have been implemented in the ECMWF coupled model, and are evaluated at seasonal and decadal time-scales. The practical implications of the different strategies are also discussed. Results show that full initialisation results in a clear model drift towards a colder climate. The anomaly initialisation is able to reduce the drift, by initialising around the model mean state. However, the erroneous model mean state results in degraded seasonal forecast skill. The best results on the seasonal time-scale are obtained using momentum-flux correction, mainly because it avoids the positive feedback responsible for a strong cold bias in the tropical Pacific. It is likely that these results are model dependent: the coupled model used here shows a strong cold bias in the Central Pacific, resulting from a positive coupled feedback between winds and SST. At decadal time-scales it is difficult to determine whether any of the strategies is superior to the others.     

多尺度大气数值预报的技术进展

随着计算机和计算理论的发展,数值模式正在向全球化、精细化发展,以适应多尺度、多目的应用的要求,从而模糊了大气环流模式和中尺度数值模式的界限,其主要手段就是改进模式动力框架、离散化手段、计算方法、物理过程的普适性。在实际应用中如何提高模式的多尺度计算性能则是问题关键。该文从模式球面坐标系、网格构造、离散化方法的动力特性、垂直坐标和地形处理以及对物理过程的要求出发,探讨分析多尺度大气数值模式的特点:全球/区域可选、非静力近似、具有良好的频散关系和详细的物理过程,垂直高度坐标和"剪切"地形对多尺度通用模式的改良十分重要。除上述特点外,模式所采用的计算方法也应该最大限度地描述大气动力过程特性,采用高性能计算方案有利于多尺度预报。结合当前多尺度预报的国际研究热点和开发前沿,探讨我国新一代多尺度数值预报系统GRAPES的进一步发展及改进方向。     

浅述植被双向反射模型

探讨了植被双向反射函数的基本概念和物理意义,并对现有的几种植被双向反射模型,几何光学模型,混浊介质模型,混合模型及计算机模拟模型的理论作简要的论述,并比较各类模型的特点。     

The modification of plume models to account for dry deposition

The assumptions and predictions of four diffusion-deposition models are compared, and two simple plume depletion models are recommended. One model applies an analytical, constant eddy-diffusivity solution of the advection-diffusion equation as a deposition correction to the general Gaussian plume model. Predictions of this model compare moderately well with those of the surface depletion model, an exact treatment of plume depletion, and it is particularly useful for estimating the transport and deposition of settling particles. The second model is a correction to the simple source depletion model that also accounts for the change in the vertical concentration profile caused by deposition. The computational requirements of this model are similar to those of the unmodified source depletion model, while its predictions near the surface are very close to those of the surface depletion model.     

WOFOST作物生长模型在国内应用研究进展

WOFOST模型是利用计算机技术对不同生产水平下一年生作物的生长发育和产量形成进行定量分析的模拟模型,学者在WOFOST模型以及模型应用方面做了大量研究,总结WOFOST模型在我国的应用研究成果,可为保障粮食安全和农业的可持续发展提供技术支撑。本文采用分类归纳法,简要阐述了WOFOST模型在我国的应用研究历程及进展,应用研究主要涉及对WOFOST模型参数的敏感性分析、模型的适用性分析、模型的改进以及对模型的应用等4个方面。针对模型应用中存在的薄弱环节及发展所需,加强对模型参数的敏感性分析、加强对模型的本地化应用或改进、加强对模型参数的升尺度研究、加强模型与多学科多技术融合4个方面将是今后WOFOST模型的研究重点。     

A note on the use of two-layer models of coastally trapped waves

Several aspects of coastally trapped wave behavior in two-layer models and in continuously stratified models are considered. A two-layer model and a uniformly stratified model are compared over a step shelf showing that, although they predict qualitatively different free-wave dispersion properties, some features of their long wave behavior are qualitatively similar. A sharp pycnocline model (a continuously stratified approximation to the two-layer model) is used to show that the presence of a vertical coastal wall (required in most two-layer models) produces substantial changes in the free-wave behavior. With a vertical coastal wall, baroclinic motions may be trapped close to the coast when the bottom there appears locally flat. Without a vertical coastal wall, such near-cost trapping apparently does not occur and the lowest mode of the sharp pycnocline model behaves more like the lowest mode of a uniformly stratified model.     

Effect of land model ensemble versus coupled model ensemble on the simulation of precipitation climatology and variability

Through a series of model simulations with an atmospheric general circulation model coupled to three different land surface models, this study investigates the impacts of land model ensembles and coupled model ensemble on precipitation simulation. It is found that coupling an ensemble of land models to an atmospheric model has a very minor impact on the improvement of precipitation climatology and variability, but a simple ensemble average of the precipitation from three individually coupled land-atmosphere models produces better results, especially for precipitation variability. The generally weak impact of land processes on precipitation should be the main reason that the land model ensembles do not improve precipitation simulation. However, if there are big biases in the land surface model or land surface data set, correcting them could improve the simulated climate, especially for well-constrained regional climate simulations.     

GRAPES全球切线性和伴随模式的调优

伴随技术是四维变分同化（4DVar）系统中计算代价函数梯度的最佳办法,切线性和伴随模式的效果和效率直接影响着4DVar系统的发展。基于GRAPES（Global and Regional Assimilation PrEdiction System）全球切线性和伴随模式1.0版本,利用GRAPES全球模式2.0版本在并行框架和性能等方面的改善,重新优化和设计了GRAPES全球切线性伴随模式2.0版本,提高了GRAPES全球切线性和伴随模式的效果和效率,优化了切线性模式程序结构,使其计算时间最优可控制在非线性模式的1.2倍以内;采用在切线性模式中保存基态的方法,重构了伴随模式的程序结构,使其计算时间最优控制在非线性模式的1.5倍以内;在GRAPES全球切线性物理过程的设计中,将线性物理过程的轨迹基态计算和切线性扰动计算解耦,提高了GRAPES全球切线性和伴随模式的计算效果和效率。     

西北地区沙尘暴预报方法的初步研究

沙尘暴是我国西北地区春季常发生的一种灾害性天气现象，也是气象业务预报工作中的一个难点。作者首先建立一个沙尘暴产生的天气学概念模型；据此模型，设计了用摩擦速度和大气边界层稳定度状况来对沙尘暴进行预报的数值方法；用PSU／NCAR的非静力中尺度模式MM5对该天气学模型的检验结果表明了该模型的合理性。最后给出了运用天气学原理和数值预报方法相结合来对沙尘暴进行预报的流程图。     

Parametrization of Heterogeneous Snowmelt

Summary Melting snow is often patchy, and advection of heat from warm patches of snow-free ground can accelerate the melting. For large-scale atmospheric modelling applications, snowmelt rates and fluxes of heat and moisture over surfaces with snow cover distributed on scales too small to be resolved by the model grid have to be parametrized. In this paper, a boundary-layer model is used to model advection over surfaces with short vegetation and varying fractions of snow cover. Boundary-layer model results are used to assess the performance of a tile model, which calculates separate fluxes for snow-covered and snow-free fractions of the surface given area-average temperatures, humidities and windspeeds at a reference height in the atmosphere. It is found that the tile model can give good results, but its performance depends strongly on the choice of reference height. Received August 21, 1997 Revised February 23, 1998     

Statistical prediction of heavy rain in South Korea

1. Introduction In recent decades, extreme weather events seem to be growing in frequency and risk due to water-related disasters. According to the World Meteorological Or- ganization report (ISDR and WMO, 2004) on World Water Day, 22 March 2004, the economic losses caused by water-related disasters, including floods, droughts and tropical cyclones, are on an increasing trend as follows: the yearly mean in the 1970s was about 131 billion US dollars, 204 billion dollars in the 1980s, and …     

Intercomparison of three urban climate models

An intercomparison of the surface energy budgets from three urban climate models was made to assess the comparability of results, and to evaluate the surface energy fluxes from each model. The three models selected spanned the continuum of approaches currently employed in the treatment of the effects of urban geometry. The first model was an urban canopy-layer model which explicitly examined urban canyon geometry. The second model treated the city as a warm, rough, moist plate but included greatly simplified parameterizations of urban geometry. Neither model included a dynamic link to the urban boundary-layer. The third model was a one-dimensional urban boundary-layer model which utilized a simple warm, rough, moist plate approach but included a dynamic coupling of the urban surface layer to the urban boundary-layer.Results showed considerable disagreement between the three models in regards to the individual energy fluxes. Average rankings of the energy fluxes in terms of comparability from high-to-low similarity were: (1) solar radiation, (2) sensible heat flux, (3) conduction, (4) latent heat flux, (5) longwave re-radiation, and (6) longwave radiation input. In general, the urban canopy-layer model provided more realistic results, although each model demonstrated strong and weak points. Results indicate that current urban boundary-layer models may produce surface energy budgets with lower sensible heat fluxes and substantially higher latent heat fluxes than is supported by field evidence from the literature.     

The Adaptation of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer to a Change in Surface Roughness

The adaptation of the atmospheric boundary layer to a change in the underlying surface roughness is an interesting problem and hence much research, theoretical, experimental, and numerical, has been undertaken. Within the atmospheric boundary layer an accurate numerical model for the turbulent properties of the atmospheric boundary layer needs to be implemented if physically realistic results are to be obtained. Here, the adaptation of the atmospheric boundary layer to a change in surface roughness is investigated using a first-order turbulence closure model, a one-and-a-half-order turbulence closure model and a second-order turbulence closure model. Perturbations to the geostrophic wind and the pressure gradients are included and it is shown that the second-order turbulence closure model, namely the standard k - model, is inferior to a lower-order closure model if a modification to limit the turbulent eddy size within the atmospheric boundary layer is not included within the model.     

上海地区褐飞虱发生程度预测

利用高空环流、海温资料和地面气象资料对上海地区水稻褐飞虱的发生期和发生量组建了长、短期结合的5个预测模型。它们褐飞虱田间始发期预测模型、灯诱始发期预测模型、高峰值出现时间预测模型、高峰虫量预测模型以及褐飞虱自然观察圃密度（百穴虫量）模拟模型。这些预测模型配套组合使用，可以判断上海地区每年褐飞虱发生的时间及严重程度，为褐飞虱的防治提供实时依据。     

Evaluation of the WRF-Lake Model over Two Major Freshwater Lakes in China

This paper evaluates the performance of the Weather Research and Forecasting(WRF) model coupled with a lake scheme over the Lake Poyang and Lake Dongting regions. We choose several cases with different weather characteristics, including winter with/without precipitation and summer with/without precipitation, and conduct a series of experiments(without the lake model, with the default lake model, and with a calibrated lake model that adjusts the water absorption, extinction coefficients, and surface roughness length) for each case. The results show that the performance of the lake model is significantly affected by the weather conditions. For the winter with precipitation cases, the performance of the default lake model is even worse than without the lake model, but the calibrated lake model can obviously reduce the biases of 2-m temperature and dew-point temperature. Although the performance of the default and new calibrated models is intricate for other cases, the new calibrated model has prominent advantages for 2-m dew-point temperature. Moreover, a long-term simulation of five months also shows that the new calibrated coupled lake model performs better than the default one. These imply that the new calibrated coupled lake model is more suitable to be used in studies of the effects of Lake Poyang and Lake Dongting on regional weather and climate.