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http://dx.doi.org/10.14191/Atmos.2018.28.2.163

A Study on the Assimilation of High-Resolution Microwave Humidity Sounder Data for Convective Scale Model at KMA  

Kim, Hyeyoung (Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
Lee, Eunhee (Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
Lee, Seung-Woo (Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
Lee, Yong Hee (Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration)
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Atmosphere / v.28, no.2, 2018 , pp. 163-174 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to assimilate MHS satellite data into the convective scale model at KMA, ATOVS data are reprocessed to utilize the original high-resolution data. And then to improve the preprocessing experiments for cloud detection were performed and optimized to convective-scale model. The experiment which is land scattering index technique added to Observational Processing System to remove contaminated data showed the best result. The analysis fields with assimilation of MHS are verified against with ECMWF analysis fields and fit to other observations including Sonde, which shows improved results on relative humidity fields at sensitive level (850-300 hPa). As the relative humidity of upper troposphere increases, the bias and RMSE of geopotential height are decreased. This improved initial field has a very positive effect on the forecast performance of the model. According to improvement of model field, the Equitable Threat Score (ETS) of precipitation prediction of $1{\sim}20mm\;hr^{-1}$ was increased and this impact was maintained for 27 hours during experiment periods.
Keywords
Microwave satellite data; convective scale model; data assimilation; cloud detection; MHS;
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