基于背景场奇异向量的CMA全球集合预报试验

目前中国气象局全球集合预报系统（China Meteorological Administration Global Ensemble Prediction System,CMA-GEPS）利用CMA全球数值预报系统分析场计算奇异向量（ANSV）,欧洲中期天气预报中心采用同化背景场计算奇异向量（FCSV）,在业务流程上先于计算ANSV,可优化集合预报系统运行时间。为此,在CMA-GEPS中探索采用FCSV进行集合预报的可行性,分析ANSV和FCSV的空间分布及相似指数,进而针对夏秋季节10个个例开展采用ANSV和FCSV的全球集合预报试验,从等压面要素集合预报技巧、中国地区24 h累积降水概率预报技巧、台风路径集合预报技巧、台风中心最低海平面气压预报技巧等方面对比二者结果。结果表明：ANSV和FCSV的主要结构特征相似,两组集合预报结果相当,表明在CMA-GEPS中使用FCSV可行,可作为未来高分辨率CMA-GEPS业务系统建设的选项。     

Cultural climatology and the representation of sky, atmosphere, weather and climate in selected art works of Constable, Monet and Eliasson

The visual turn presents new challenges and methodologies for the pursuit of geography as we seek to communicate our ideas and understanding within and beyond the discipline. This paper attempts to show the potential importance of visual culture within a field that we may call cultural climatology. Cultural climatology seeks to explore the dialectic between society and atmosphere, weather and climate at a variety of temporal and spatial scales. A new visual approach to cultural climatology is presented as a possible way of stimulating conversations across the divide between the social and physical sciences. Images and visualisation assert their presence in the understanding, modelling and communication of many nature/culture debates, highlighting a need both for visual literacy across geography, and for social and physical scientists to share their visual methodologies. Cultural climatologists, like other scientists, need visual methodologies for both the critical construction and deconstruction of the images they wish to present and with which they are confronted. To illustrate the importance of visual literacy for cultural climatologists this paper introduces a sample of works from three artists: Constable, Monet and Eliasson. It shows how an exploration of their work (via a theory of pictures) could help to provide: firstly a methodology for understanding the cultural symbolism of skies and weather; secondly an assessment of the urban atmosphere in London at the turn of the 20th century and thirdly an example of the effective representation of atmosphere, weather and climate involving public participation and understanding. Lessons learned from deconstructing these works of art will then be used to suggest improvements in the visualisation of weather in the production and consumption of weather forecasts (thus, picturing theory).     

A petroleum discovery-rate forecast revisited—The problem of field growth

A forecast of the future rates of discovery of crude oil and natural gas for the 123,027-km² Miocene/Pliocene trend in the Gulf of Mexico was made in 1980. This forecast was evaluated in 1988 by comparing two sets of data: (1) the actual versus the forecasted number of fields discovered, and (2) the actual versus the forecasted volumes of crude oil and natural gas discovered with the drilling of 1,820 wildcat wells along the trend between January 1, 1977, and December 31, 1985. The forecast specified that this level of drilling would result in the discovery of 217 fields containing 1.78 billion barrels of oil equivalent; however, 238 fields containing 3.57 billion barrels of oil equivalent were actually discovered. This underestimation is attributed to biases introduced by field growth and, to a lesser degree, the artificially low, pre-1970's price of natural gas that prevented many smaller gas fields from being brought into production at the time of their discovery; most of these fields contained less than 50 billion cubic feet of producible natural gas.     

云南地区未来强震的概率预测

本文将云南地区分为三个地震预报区,利用马尔科夫齐次模型,分别计算了其未来5年和10年时间内可能发生M≥6.0、M≥6.5和M≥7.0级地震的概率。     

Evaluation of WRF-based convection-permitting multi-physics ensemble forecasts over China for an extreme rainfall event on 21 July 2012 in Beijing

On 21 July 2012, an extreme rainfall event that recorded a maximum rainfall amount over 24 hours of 460 mm, occurred in Beijing, China. Most operational models failed to predict such an extreme amount. In this study, a convective-permitting ensemble forecast system (CEFS), at 4-km grid spacing, covering the entire mainland of China, is applied to this extreme rainfall case. CEFS consists of 22 members and uses multiple physics parameterizations. For the event, the predicted maximum is 415 mm d^-1 in the probability-matched ensemble mean. The predicted high-probability heavy rain region is located in southwest Beijing, as was observed. Ensemble-based verification scores are then investigated. For a small verification domain covering Beijing and its surrounding areas, the precipitation rank histogram of CEFS is much flatter than that of a reference global ensemble. CEFS has a lower (higher) Brier score and a higher resolution than the global ensemble for precipitation, indicating more reliable probabilistic forecasting by CEFS. Additionally, forecasts of different ensemble members are compared and discussed. Most of the extreme rainfall comes from convection in the warm sector east of an approaching cold front. A few members of CEFS successfully reproduce such precipitation, and orographic lift of highly moist low-level flows with a significantly southeasterly component is suggested to have played important roles in producing the initial convection. Comparisons between good and bad forecast members indicate a strong sensitivity of the extreme rainfall to the mesoscale environmental conditions, and, to less of an extent, the model physics.     

Flood forecasting in Niger-Benue basin using satellite and quantitative precipitation forecast data

Availability of reliable, timely and accurate rainfall data is constraining the establishment of flood forecasting and early warning systems in many parts of Africa. We evaluated the potential of satellite and weather forecast data as input to a parsimonious flood forecasting model to provide information for flood early warning in the central part of Nigeria. We calibrated the HEC-HMS rainfall-runoff model using rainfall data from post real time Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multi satellite Precipitation Analysis product (TMPA). Real time TMPA satellite rainfall estimates and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) rainfall products were tested for flood forecasting. The implication of removing the systematic errors of the satellite rainfall estimates (SREs) was explored. Performance of the rainfall-runoff model was assessed using visual inspection of simulated and observed hydrographs and a set of performance indicators. The forecast skill was assessed for 1–6 days lead time using categorical verification statistics such as Probability Of Detection (POD), Frequency Of Hit (FOH) and Frequency Of Miss (FOM). The model performance satisfactorily reproduced the pattern and volume of the observed stream flow hydrograph of Benue River. Overall, our results show that SREs and rainfall forecasts from weather models have great potential to serve as model inputs for real-time flood forecasting in data scarce areas. For these data to receive application in African transboundary basins, we suggest (i) removing their systematic error to further improve flood forecast skill; (ii) improving rainfall forecasts; and (iii) improving data sharing between riparian countries.     

A method to predict typhoon waves

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基于天气预报的参考作物腾发量LS-SVM预测模型

利用最小二乘支持向量机(LS-SVM)方法,建立了基于天气预报的参考作物腾发量(ET₀)的预测模型.对广利灌区1997~2006年逐日气象信息中的天气类型和风速等级进行量化后,以不同天气预报信息作为输入量,建立10种验证方案,对2007年的逐日ET₀进行预测.经验证,方案1~方案7精度均令人满意,其中方案1精度最高.方案1的输入量为气温、天气类型、风速等级3项的预测值,该方案的模型预测值与计算值的统计参数分别为:均方根偏差E_RMS为0.5182 mm,相对偏差E_R为0.1878,决定系数R2为0.864 8,认同系数I_A为0.966 9,回归系数R_C为0.9867;方案7精度亦较好,且以上指标统计参数依次为0.6576 mm、0.2332、0.986 6、0.774 7及0.986 6,该方案输入量只有气温项,实用性很强.     

利用BP神经网络提高奥运会空气质量实时预报系统预报效果

将BP(Back Propagation)神经网络方法引入到奥运空气质量预报工作中,利用MATLAB神经网络工具箱搭建运行平台,将高时效性的观测结果与多模式集成实时预报系统的模式输出结果相结合,做出BP神经网络拟合预报结果。在对北京大学医学部站点2008年7月7日到8月26日模式模拟结果、观测结果以及BP神经网络拟合结果的对比研究中发现:BP神经网络能大大提高模式预报效果,平均误差率减少34.7%,相关系数提高39%,特别是在模式模拟效果较差的情况下,对提高预报效果更明显。对BP神经网络样本问题进行敏感性实验结果表明,样本数目多少并不是决定拟合效果的决定性因素,应选取具有稳定映射关系的样本,才是提高拟合预报效果的关键。