A study of the connection between tropical cyclone track and intensity errors in the WRF model |
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Authors: | Du Duc Tien Thanh Ngo-Duc Hoang Thi Mai Chanh Kieu |
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Institution: | 1. Research and Development Division, National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, Hanoi, Vietnam 2. Department of Meteorology, Hanoi College of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam 3. Laboratory for Weather and Climate Forecasting, Hanoi College of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam 4. I. M. Systems Group at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, 20740, USA
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Abstract: | This study examines the dependence of the tropical cyclone (TC) intensity errors on the track errors in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF-ARW) model. By using the National Centers for Environmental Prediction global final analysis as the initial and boundary conditions for cloud-resolving simulations of TC cases that have small track errors, it is found that the 2- and 3-day intensity errors in the North Atlantic basin can be reduced to 15 and 19 % when the track errors decrease to 55 and 76 %, respectively, whereas the 1-day intensity error shows no significant reduction despite more than 30 % decrease of the 1-day track error. For the North-Western Pacific basin, the percentage of intensity reduction is somewhat similar with the 2- and 3-day intensity errors improved by about 15 and 19 %, respectively. This suggests that future improvement of the TC track forecast skill in the WRF-ARW model will be beneficial to the intensity forecast. However, the substantially smaller percentages of intensity improvement than those of the track error improvement indicate that ambient environment tends to play a less important role in determining the TC intensity as compared to other factors related to the vortex initialization or physics representations in the WRF-ARW model. |
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