Possible sources of forecast errors generated by the global/regional assimilation and prediction system for landfalling tropical cyclones. Part I: Initial uncertainties

This paper investigates the possible sources of errors associated with tropical cyclone (TC) tracks forecasted using the Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System (GRAPES). The GRAPES forecasts were made for 16 landfalling TCs in the western North Pacific basin during the 2008 and 2009 seasons, with a forecast length of 72 hours, and using the default initial conditions (“initials”, hereafter), which are from the NCEP-FNL dataset, as well as ECMWF initials. The forecasts are compared with ECMWF forecasts. The results show that in most TCs, the GRAPES forecasts are improved when using the ECMWF initials compared with the default initials. Compared with the ECMWF initials, the default initials produce lower intensity TCs and a lower intensity subtropical high, but a higher intensity South Asia high and monsoon trough, as well as a higher temperature but lower specific humidity at the TC center. Replacement of the geopotential height and wind fields with the ECMWF initials in and around the TC center at the initial time was found to be the most efficient way to improve the forecasts. In addition, TCs that showed the greatest improvement in forecast accuracy usually had the largest initial uncertainties in TC intensity and were usually in the intensifying phase. The results demonstrate the importance of the initial intensity for TC track forecasts made using GRAPES, and indicate the model is better in describing the intensifying phase than the decaying phase of TCs. Finally, the limit of the improvement indicates that the model error associated with GRAPES forecasts may be the main cause of poor forecasts of landfalling TCs. Thus, further examinations of the model errors are required.     

省级气象广域网网络优化的设计与应用

目前湖北省气象地面宽带网省—地—县3级结构中,省局与各市(州)局间采用单条专线连接,手动VPN(Virtual Private Network)拨号线路备份的传输方式,这种传输方式不足以保证数据传输的可靠性。现设计新增一条专线,实现省到地的双线路备份。同时,增加一台省端网络互联交换机,升级地市端的网络互联路由器硬件,将数据划分为业务数据和视频会商两类,定义不同的传输方式。业务数据采用OSPF(Open Shortest Path First)动态路由方式进行传输,视频会商通过配置静态路由BFD(Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)联动的路由方式进行传输,并通过QoS(Quality of Service)保证其4 Mb/s的带宽,从而实现省到地数据业务更合理可靠地传输。     

利用压密方程计算分析西安市地面沉降特征

利用西安市地下水位监测资料,基于水文地质三维结构模型,在不考虑粘土层滞后压缩变形的理想情况下,采用压密方程计算获得西安市抽取地下水可引起的理论地面沉降量及沉降分布特征,结果表明:计算所得沉降显著区位于西安市西南部的高新区及东南部的曲江新区,沉降量呈由北向南递增的特征,与InSAR监测结果整体趋势具有较好的一致性;地面沉降分布特征受到活动地裂缝影响,沉降曲线呈近NE向偏转展布。研究结果可为沉降灾害预防研究提供宏观的参考信息。     

GNSS 监测数据预处理在变形预测中的应用

GNSS监测技术被广泛应用于变形监测工作中,但GNSS监测数据中会有缺失值、噪声等误差的存在,对预测结果造成影响。引入改进的小波神经网络模型进行变形预测,并考虑该模型的自适应性和容错性,分别采用三次样条插值法、小波滤波法和拉依达准则对原始监测数据进行缺失值填补、去噪和粗差剔除等预处理。并利用实际监测数据进行短期预报分析,对比原始监测数据和预处理后的监测数据的预测结果,结果表明预处理后的监测数据的预测效果更好。     

Atmospheric insight to climatic signals of δ~(18)O in a Laohugou ice core in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during 1960–2006

δ~(18)O variations;;ice core;;outgoing longwave radiation;;meridional wind;;northeastern Tibetan Plateau