A REVIEW OF THE ANALYSIS OF MOISTURE VARIABLES AND THE APPLICATION IN NUMERICAL MODELS

The application of the explicit microphysical process in the high-resolution mesoscale numerical models makes it necessary to analyze the moisture variables such as the cloud water, cloud ice and rain water to initialize the explicit predicted fields. While the inclusion of moisture variables in initial fields can influence the whole performance of the model significantly, it can also reduce the spin-up time and increase the short-term forecasting ability of the model since the dynamical fields become more accordant with the thermodynamic fields. Now the increase of the observing ability and the abundance of the data promote the development of ways to analyze the moisture variables. A review of some methods to analyze the moisture variables is presented, and the situation and problems of the application in the numerical models are also discussed in this paper.