Impact of 4DVAR assimilation of rainfall data on the simulation of mesoscale precipitation systems in a mei-yu heavy rainfall event |
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Authors: | Chu Kekuan Tan Zhemin Ming Xue |
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Affiliation: | Key Lab of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093,Key Lab of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093,School of Meteorology and Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma,Norman, OK 73019, USA |
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Abstract: | The multi-scale weather systems associated with a mei-yu front and the corresponding heavy precipitation during a particular heavy rainfall event that occurred on 4-5 July 2003 in east China were successfully simulated through rainfall assimilation using the PSU/NCAR non-hydrostatic, mesoscale, numerical model (MM5) and its four-dimensional, variational, data assimilation (4DVAR) system. For this case, the improvement of the process via the 4DVAR rainfall assimilation into the simulation of mesoscale precipitation systems is investigated. With the rainfall assimilation, the convection is triggered at the right location and time, and the evolution and spatial distribution of the mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are also more correctly simulated. Through the interactions between MCSs and the weather systems at different scales,including the low-level jet and mei-yu front, the simulation of the entire mei-yu weather system is significantly improved, both during the data assimilation window and the subsequent 12-h period. The results suggest that the rainfall assimilation first provides positive impact at the convective scale and the influences are then propagated upscale to the meso- and sub-synoptic scales.Through a set of sensitive experiments designed to evaluate the impact of different initial variables on the simulation of mei-yu heavy rainfall, it was found that the moisture field and meridional wind had the strongest effect during the convection initialization stage, however, after the convection was fully triggered,all of the variables at the initial condition seemed to have comparable importance. |
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Keywords: | 4DVAR rainfall assimilation impact mesoscale convective system mei-yu heavy rainfall |
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