Evaluation of Short-Range Forecasts from a Mesoscale Model Over the Indian Region During Monsoon 2006 |
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| Authors: | V Rakesh R Singh P C Joshi |
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| Institution: | (1) CSIR Center for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS), NAL Belur Campus, Bangalore, 560037, India;(2) Atmospheric Sciences Division, Meteorology and Oceanography Group, Space Applications Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad, 380015, India |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the short-range forecast accuracy of the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric
Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) as applied to the July 2006 episode of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) and the model's sensitivity
to the choice of different cumulus parameterization schemes (CPSs), namely Betts-Miller, Grell (GR) and Kain-Fritsch (KF).
The results showed that MM5 day 1 (0–24 h prediction) and day 2 (24–48 h prediction) forecasts using all three CPSs overpredicted
monsoon rainfall over the Indian landmass, with the larger overprediction seen in the day 2 forecasts. Among the CPSs, the
rainfall distribution over the Indian landmass was better simulated in forecasts using the KF scheme. The KF scheme showed
better skill in predicting the area of rainfall for most of the rainfall thresholds. The root mean square error (RMSE) in
day 1 and day 2 rainfall forecasts using different CPSs showed that rainfall simulated using the KF scheme agreed better with
the observed rainfall. As compared to other CPSs, simulation using the GR scheme showed larger RMSE in wind speed prediction
at 850 and 200 hPa over the Indian landmass. MM5 24-h temperature forecasts at 850 hPa with all the CPSs showed a warm bias
of the order of 1 K over the Indian landmass and the bias doubled in 48-h model forecasts. The mean error in temperature prediction
at 850 hPa over the Indian region using the KF scheme was comparatively smaller for all the forecast intervals. The model
with all the CPSs overpredicted humidity at 850 hPa. The improved prediction by MM5 with the KF scheme is well complemented
by the smaller error shown by the KF scheme in vertical distribution of heat and mean moist static energy in the lower troposphere.
In this study, the KF scheme which explicitly resolve the downdrafts in the cloud column tended to produce more realistic
precipitation forecasts as compared to other schemes which did not explicitly incorporate downdraft effects. This is an important
result especially given that the area covered by monsoon-precipitating systems is largely from stratiform-type clouds which
are associated with strong downdrafts in the lower levels. This result is useful for improving the treatment of cumulus convection
in numerical models over the ISM region. |
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