Influence of Surface Temperature and Emissivity on AMSU-A Assimilation over Land

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摘要 AMSU-A(AdvancedMicrowaveSoundingUnit-A)measurementsforchannelsthataresensitivetothesurfaceoverlandhavenotbeenwidelyassimilatedintonumericalweatherprediction(NWP)modelsduetocomplicatedlandsurfacefeatures.Inthispaper,theimpactofAMSU-AassimilationoverlandinSouthwestAsiaisinvestigatedwiththeWeatherResearchandForecasting(WRF)model.Fourradianceassimilationexperimentswithdifferentland-surfaceschemesaredesigned,thencomparedandverifiedagainstradiosondeobservationsandglobalanalyses.BesidesthesurfaceemissivitycalculatedfromtheemissivitymodelandsurfacetemperaturefromthebackgroundfieldincurrentWRFvariationaldataassimilation(WRF-VAR)system,thesurfaceparametersfromtheoperationalMicrowaveSurfaceandPrecipitationProductsSystem(MSPPS)areintroducedtounderstandtheinfluenceofsurfaceparametersonAMSU-Aassimilationoverland.ThesensitivityofsimulatedbrightnesstemperaturestodifferentsurfaceconfigurationsshowsthatusingMSPPSsurfacealternativessignificantlyimprovesthesimulationwithreducedrootmeansquareerror(RMSE)andallowsmoreobservationstobeassimilated.Verificationsof24-htemperatureforecastsfromexperimentsagainstradiosondeobservationsandNationalCentersforEnvironmentalPrediction(NCEP)globalanalysesshowthattheexperimentsusingMSPPSsurfacealternativesgeneratepositiveimpactonforecasttemperaturesatloweratmosphericlayers,especiallyat850hPa.ThespatialdistributionofRMSEforforecasttemperaturevalidationindicatesthattheexperimentsusingMSPPSsurfacetemperatureobviouslyimproveforecasttemperaturesinthemountainareas.ThepreliminarystudyindicatesthatusingpropersurfacetemperatureisimportantwhenassimilatinglowersoundingchannelsofAMSU-Aoverland.
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出处 《气象学报:英文版》 2011年5期
出版日期 2011年05月15日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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