ارزیابی پیش‌بینی میزان ابرناکی حاصل از مدل عددی WRF

نویسندگان

1 استادیار، گروه فیزیک فضا، دانشکدۀ فیزیک، دانشگاه یزد، ایران

2 دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد، گروه فیزیک فضا، دانشکدۀ فیزیک، دانشگاه یزد، ایران

چکیده

در این پژوهش پیش‌بینی پوشش ابری توسط مدل میان مقیاس جوی WRF مورد بررسی قرار گرفته است. ابتدا جهت تعیین امکان پیش‌بینی پوشش ابری توسط مدل خروجی این مدل توسط تصاویر رادار و ماهواره مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت. با توجه به نتایج قابل قبول به‌دست آمده، مدل برای یک دوره‌ی 5 روزه اجرا و با داده‌های مشاهداتی راست‌آزمایی گردید. جهت راست‌آزمایی مدل WRF از کمیت‌های راست‌آزمایی مانند کمیت اریبی، آهنگ برخورد و نسبت هشدارهای نادرست استفاده شد. این دوره 5 روزه با داده‌های به‌دست آمده از تصاویر ماهواره نیز مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت. در نهایت مدل برای یک دوره زمانی سه ماهه نیز اجرا و و با داده‌های مشاهداتی راست‌آزمایی گردید. نتایج به‌دست آمده از تمامی ارزیابی‌ها یکسان و نشان دادند که مدل هوای صاف را خوب پیش‌بینی می‌کند هرچند دارای فراپیش‌بینی است. زمانی که پوشش ابری کامل است مدل پیش‌بینی قابل قبولی دارد. ولی برای هوای نیمه‌ابری خروجی مدل ضعیف و فروپیش‌بینی دارد.

کلیدواژه‌ها

موضوعات


عنوان مقاله [English]

Evaluation of cloudiness prediction resulting from WRF model

نویسندگان [English]

  • Mohammad Hossein Memarian 1
  • Mahsa Daman Afshan 2
1 Yazd university
2 Yazd University
چکیده [English]

Weather predicts are influence in all aspects of life everyday. More importantly Weather warnings are important forecasts because they are used to protect life and property. Mesoscale numerical weather prediction models are key for weather forecasting, however the accuracy of the predictions are affected by the errors in the numerical models.
Study of the clouds is challenging and there are many applications in which the prediction of cloud is essential, including the field of air transport, rainfall and water resources. Nowadays, the clouds and precipitation of its behavior are even more strategic. Severe water shortage in some areas and increase rainfall in other areas is due to climate changes, therefore research in cloud and its precipitations are so important. The errors in the cloud forecast can have widespread impacts on the quality and accuracy of other model outputs. One of the important influences on temperature is interaction between the cloud and radiation. Therefore, parameters of cloud models, are very important to evaluate the model used for the prediction. In this study cloud cover, predicted by the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model, is reviewed.
The evaluating of clouds has always been a challenging task, due to the three dimensional (3D) structure and the need to finding adequate observations for the purpose. Historically conventional surface data have been used for verification purposes because of the ease of accessibility. This, at best provide point observations of low, medium and high cloud, total cloud and cloud base height. Recently Mittermaier (2012) reviewed the use of these observations for verification of Total Cloud Amount or cover (TCA) and cloud base height (CBH).
The availability of two dimensional time-height observations from ground-based active remote sensing instruments such as vertically pointing cloud radar can provide vertical detail at a location over time, from which cloud profiles (cloud amount as a function of altitude) can be derived. These give a view of clouds “from below”. Satellite data can provide a view from above.
As the first step for the evaluation of a numerical model of forecasting, the forecast data and observations must be prepared in which the observations should be temporally and spatially matched in an appropriate manner, as far as possible. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the cloud cover predicted by the model, and to do that, radar and satellite images have been used as observation data. The study has used table of agreement 3*3 for verification of cloud parameters in three categories of no clouds, partly cloudy and cloudy. The first WRF model is implemented in 5 days for ages predicting less than 24 hour and more than 24 and less than 48 hours. For running WRF model, 3 Domain was considered including 36 km horizontal range of parent domain and two nest domains with range of 12 and 4 km. It is worth noting that the relation between total cloud cover and images of Radar measurements was investigated in the time - period of 7/5/2009 - 12/5/2009. For evaluation of WRF used the assessment of the quantities, such as Bias (B), False Alarms Rate (FAR), Proportion Correct (PC), Kuipers Skill Score (KSS) and Heidke Skill Score (HSS). The 5 - day period were also evaluated with data obtained from satellite images. The results showed that verification of the model WRF for all ages of forecasting and for all domains is same. The model almost predicts all clear weather condition, however, it has come to overestimation. The number of times correct or incorrect partly cloudy weather is predicted by the model was very small so the output of the model for the partly cloudy is poor and quantity of cloudy weather was acceptable. The cases in which the weather was clear or partly cloudy, but the model predicted cloudy weather has very few occurrences. This result shows the amount of false alarms rate is low. In order to confirm these results, the evaluation was done for a longer period in three months, and the results are match.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • "forecasting"
  • "total cloud cover"
  • "WRF model"
  • "Verification"
  • "contingency tables"
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