Adaptation of the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) for hourly cycled application within the Rapid Refresh Ming Hu 1,2, Stan Benjamin 1, Steve.

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Adaptation of the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) for hourly cycled application within the Rapid Refresh Ming Hu 1,2, Stan Benjamin 1, Steve Weygandt 1, Haidao Lin 1,3, Curtis Alexander 1,2, Patrick Hofmann 1,2, David Dowell 1 1 NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Global System Division 2 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Colorado University at Boulder 3 Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University 1 21 st Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction Tuesday 29 May 2012 Montréal, Canada

2 RUC Non-WRF RUC model RUC 3DVAR analysis Continuous cycling CONUS Domain Rapid Refresh WRF-based ARW GSI analysis Partial cycling Expanded 13 km Domain – ~2.8 times bigger – Includes Alaska – Rotated Latlon Rapid Refresh domain RUC domain RUC and RR  24/Day = hourly update  Forecasts to 18 hours  13 km horizontal  Cloud analysis, Radar DDFI, Surface data analysis RAP: An operational system(since May 1 st, 2012) built upon community forecast and analysis systems with lots of enhancements and tunings RUC Becomes Rapid Refresh (RAP) John Brown’s talk in session 3B1

NCEP, NASA GMAO supported “full” system Developed mainly by NCEP for operational data analysis Advanced satellite radiance assimilation with JCSDA NASA GMAO work to create GSI-based 4DVAR GSI used by NCEP for GFS, NAM, and RTMA Community analysis system Many community developers and users (GSD, NCAR/MMM, …) DTC work to make GSI available to research community Community-wide SVN code management Other applications Use of GSI observation processing for ESRL EnKF work Transition to GSI by Air Force Weather Agency Why use GSI for Rapid Refresh? The 3rd GSI summer tutorial: The 3rd GSI summer tutorial: August 2012 at NCAR, Boulder, CO

Porting of GSI to from NCEP IBM to ESRL Linux - Many IBM-specific coding features, especially I/O - Much work by ESRL IT team to get robust Linux GSI - NCEP libraries on Linux Coupling of GSI to WRF ARW - Testing and evaluation of many GSI features for ARW - Completion of several GSI ARW code stubs - Adaptation of GSI and ARW modules to accommodate hourly cycling Adding Rapid Refresh (RUC) specific features to GSI: Cloud analysis (satellite, METAR, radar obs) Cloud analysis (satellite, METAR, radar obs) Assimilation of radar and lightning data Assimilation of radar and lightning data RUC-design modifications for surface assimilation RUC-design modifications for surface assimilation GSD contributions to GSI

observation - Uses METAR, satellite, radar, lightning data - Updates RR 1h-fcst RR hydrometeor, water vapor fields - Generates latent heating from radar and lightning data Cloud analysis schematic RUC/RR Cloud analysis schematic

Cloud Analysis Verification: PODy analysis and 1-h forecast oprRR devRR Analysis 1h fcst PODy 1000 feet ceilingPODy 3000 feet ceilingPODy 500 feet ceiling Cloud analysis RR Cloud analysis

oprRR devRR3h fcst 6h fcst PODy 1000 feet ceilingPODy 3000 feet ceilingPODy 500 feet ceiling Cloud Analysis Verification: PODy 3- and 6-h forecast Cloud analysis RR Cloud analysis

Radar and lightning data assimilation in RR Great lightning coverage from GLD360: more details in our poster for “2012 NOAA Satellite Science Week” Average vertical profile of reflectivity as a function of the composite reflectivity in 5 dBZ bins from 30 to 50 Important for storm initialization and forecast in RR/HRRR

1.Avoid building cloud using METAR ceiling observations with haze and dust observations in 2.Use NASA LaRC cloud product along with the NESDIS product 3.Use PBL in the calculation radar reflectivity TTEN 4.Building of low-level clouds from GOES data 5.Conserve the virtual potential temperature during moisture adjustment. 6.Avoid building cloud into inversions if guess is very dry 7.Bug Fixes Further Enhancements in cloud analysis for RAPv2 These enhancements are based on the real-time tests and the RUC applications. Please see Patrick’s talk tomorrow (2E1.3) for more details on enhancement 4 and 5

1.Assimilation of surface moisture pseudo-obs in PBL 2.Soil adjustment based on near-surface temperature / moisture increments 3.Elevation correction, innovation limits for GPS-TPW obs 4.Linear variation of observation error inflation below surface for q, t. 5.QCed wind measurements from towers and wind-generator nacelles are now included in analysis 6.Limit the low level moisture analysis increment over ocean For up-air observations – Add additional QC for PBL profiler – Add aircraft observation rejection list to toss bad aircraft temperature, wind, and moisture observations. – Closer fit to sounding Surface data analysis Enhancements for RAPv2 Please see Patrick’s talk for details on 1,2, 3, and closer fit to sounding These enhancements to RAPv2 have been committed to GSI trunk and will be available for community users in new community GSI release version 3.1.

Tune existing background error covariance for RR Apply and test new observations – lightning, Nacelle and tower wind, NASA cloud products, Sodar profilers Comparison of RR(RAP) GSI on top of different trunk GSI revisions RAPv1 GSI is based on GSI trunk r9374 ( ) Current RAPv2 GSI is based on GSI trunk r16882 ( ) RAPv2 on top of the trunk is under testing Data usage: data window, data errors, QC Check the impact of the data in Rapid Refresh Other tuning and testing for RR GSI

Temperature national hPa #1 = Aircraft #2 = RAOBs Aircraft more at 3h, RAOB-12h airc Valid 00z - daytime Valid 12z - nighttime raob From RAP data impact study Details see Stan Benjamin’s talk at WMO Workshop on Impact of Observations on NWP “ Impact of upper-air and near-surface observations on short-range forecasts from NOAA hourly assimilation cycles (RUC and Rapid Refresh)”

GSI has been successfully adapted in RR(RAP) application Benefit from the GSI development and research community Great contributions to GSI community from RAP development – Cloud analysis package – Surface data analysis enhancements – Radar and lightning data analysis – Test and evaluation GSI for application in rapid assimilation cycles with WRF-ARW Summary

Future development – Process toward variational cloud analysis – Generate background error covariance based on RR(RAP) forecast – Enhancement satellite radiance data assimilation – Apply and improve RR(RAP) GSI for HRRR applications Evolve toward a variational/EnKF hybrid approach Future work

GSI Hyb EnKF Re-center Ensemble Fcst (1-h) 04 z (cycle) Time Deterministic Fcst (12h) GSI Hyb EnKF Re-center Ensemble Forecast (1-h) Deterministic Forecast (12h) Members 1-hr fcst Members GSI Hyb EnKF Re-center Members 1-hr fcst Members Perturbed Lateral BC based on GFS forecast Lateral BC from GFS forecast 03 z (cold start) 05 z (cycle) Perturbed Lateral BC based on GFS forecast Lateral BC from GFS forecast Initial members from GFS 3-h fcst perturbed with WRFDA GFS 3-h fcst RAP 2Way Hybrid Assimilation Cycles (under development)