TY - GEN
AU - Carla Cardinali
AU - Roberto Buizza
AU - G.A. Kelly
AU - M. Shapiro
AU - Jean-Noël Thépaut
AB - The value of targeted observations over the North Atlantic Ocean in the summer season is assessed for different meteorological flow regimes. It is shown that during tropical cyclone activity and particularly during tropical cyclone transition phase, removing observations in sensitive regions, indicated by singular vectors optimized on the 2-day forecast over Europe, degrades the skill of a given forecast more than excluding observations in randomly selected regions. The maximum downstream degradation computed in terms of, spatially and temporally averaged root mean square error of 500-hPa geopotential height is about 13%, a value which is 6 times larger than when removing observation in randomly selected areas. The forecast impact found by degrading the observational coverage in sensitive areas, for these selected periods, is similar to the impact found (elsewhere in other weather forecast systems) for the observational targeting campaigns carried out over the last years, and it is larger than the average impact obtained by considering a larger set of cases covering various seasons.
BT - ECMWF Technical Memoranda
DA - 02/2007
DO - 10.21957/d7zagasw6
LA - eng
M1 - 513
N2 - The value of targeted observations over the North Atlantic Ocean in the summer season is assessed for different meteorological flow regimes. It is shown that during tropical cyclone activity and particularly during tropical cyclone transition phase, removing observations in sensitive regions, indicated by singular vectors optimized on the 2-day forecast over Europe, degrades the skill of a given forecast more than excluding observations in randomly selected regions. The maximum downstream degradation computed in terms of, spatially and temporally averaged root mean square error of 500-hPa geopotential height is about 13%, a value which is 6 times larger than when removing observation in randomly selected areas. The forecast impact found by degrading the observational coverage in sensitive areas, for these selected periods, is similar to the impact found (elsewhere in other weather forecast systems) for the observational targeting campaigns carried out over the last years, and it is larger than the average impact obtained by considering a larger set of cases covering various seasons.
PB - ECMWF
PY - 2007
EP - 13
T2 - ECMWF Technical Memoranda
TI - The value of targeted observations - Part III: Influence of different weather regimes.
UR - https://www.ecmwf.int/node/8590
ER -