Impact of Radiosonde Balloon Drift on Numerical Weather Prediction and Verification
Impact of Radiosonde Balloon Drift on Numerical Weather Prediction and Verification
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无线电探空仪气球漂移对数值天气预报和验证的影响
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2013
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R. Sarrazin
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作者:
S. Laroche;R. Sarrazin
AbstractRadiosonde observations employed in real-time numerical weather prediction (NWP) applications are disseminated through the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) using alphanumeric codes. These codes do not include information about the position and elapsed ascent time of the balloon. Consequently, the horizontal balloon drift has generally been either ignored or estimated in data assimilation systems for NWP. With the increasing resolution of atmospheric models, it is now important to consider the positions and times of radiosonde data in both data assimilation and forecast verification systems. This information is now available in the Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological Data (BUFR) code for radiosonde data. This latter code will progressively replace the alphanumeric codes for all radiosonde data transmitted on the GTS. As a result, a strategy should be adopted by NWP centers to deal with the various codes for radiosonde data during this transition. In this work, a meth...