Percentile-based neighborhood precipitation verification and its application to a landfalling tropical storm case with radar data assimilation |
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Authors: | Kefeng Zhu Yi Yang Ming Xue |
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Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/Ministry of Education and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China 2. Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 73072, USA 3. College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Abstract: | The traditional threat score based on fixed thresholds for precipitation verification is sensitive to intensity forecast bias.In this study, the neighborhood precipitation threat score is modified by defining the thresholds in terms of the percentiles of overall precipitation instead of fixed threshold values. The impact of intensity forecast bias on the calculated threat score is reduced. The method is tested with the forecasts of a tropical storm that re-intensified after making landfall and caused heavy flooding. The forecasts are produced with and without radar data assimilation. The forecast with assimilation of both radial velocity and reflectivity produce precipitation patterns that better match observations but have large positive intensity bias.When using fixed thresholds, the neighborhood threat scores fail to yield high scores for forecasts that have good pattern match with observations, due to large intensity bias. In contrast, the percentile-based neighborhood method yields the highest score for the forecast with the best pattern match and the smallest position error. The percentile-based method also yields scores that are more consistent with object-based verifications, which are less sensitive to intensity bias, demonstrating the potential value of percentile-based verification. |
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Keywords: | neighborhood precipitation threat score percentile-based verification radar data assimilation |
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