Impact of Different Cloud Microphysics Parameterization Schemes on Typhoon Intensity and Structure |
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| Authors: | WANG Chen-x and YING Ming |
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| Institution: | Shanghai Typhoon Institute, CMA, Shanghai 200030 China |
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| Abstract: | The impact of different cloud microphysics parameterization schemes on the intensity and structure of the
Super-strong Typhoon Rammasun (1409) in 2014 is investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting model
version 3.4 with eight cloud microphysics parameterization schemes. Results indicate that the uncertainty of cloud
microphysics schemes results in typhoon forecast uncertainties, which increase with forecast time. Typhoon forecast
uncertainty primarily affects intensity predictions, with significant differences in predicted typhoon intensity using the
various cloud microphysics schemes. Typhoon forecast uncertainty also affects the predicted typhoon structure.
Greater typhoon intensity is accompanied by smaller vortex width, tighter vortex structure, stronger wind in the
middle and lower troposphere, greater height of the strong wind region, smaller thickness of the eyewall and the
outward extension of the eyewall, and a warmer warm core at upper levels of the eye. The differences among the
various cloud microphysics schemes lead to the different amounts and distributions of water vapor and hydrometeors
in clouds. Different hydrometeors have different vertical distributions. In the radial direction, the maxima for the
various hydrometeors forecast by a single cloud microphysics scheme are collocated with each other and with the
center of maximum precipitation. When the hydrometeor concentration is high and hydrometeors exist at lower
altitudes, more precipitation often occurs. Both the vertical and horizontal winds are the strongest at the location of
maximum precipitation. Results also indicate that typhoon intensities forecast by cloud microphysics schemes
containing graupel processes are noticeably greater than those forecast by schemes without graupel processes. Among
the eight cloud microphysics schemes investigated, typhoon intensity forecasts using the WRF Single-Moment 6-class
and Thompson schemes are the most accurate. |
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| Keywords: | cloud microphysics scheme typhoon intensity structure uncertainty |
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