Typhoon Ensemble Prediction System Developed at the Japan Meteorological Agency
Typhoon Ensemble Prediction System Developed at the Japan Meteorological Agency
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DOI:
10.1175/2009mwr2697.1
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发表时间:
2009-08
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
M. Yamaguchi;R. Sakai;Masayuki Kyoda;T. Komori;T. Kadowaki
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作者:
M. Yamaguchi;R. Sakai;Masayuki Kyoda;T. Komori;T. Kadowaki
Abstract The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Typhoon Ensemble Prediction System (TEPS) and its performance are described. In February 2008, JMA started an operation of TEPS that was designed for providing skillful tropical cyclone (TC) track predictions in both deterministic and probabilistic ways. TEPS consists of 1 nonperturbed prediction and 10 perturbed predictions based on the lower-resolution version (TL319L60) of the JMA Global Spectral Model (GSM; TL959L60) and a global analysis for JMA/GSM. A singular vector method is employed to create initial perturbations. Focusing on TCs in the western North Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea (0°–60°N, 100°E–180°), TEPS runs 4 times a day, initiated at 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC with a prediction range of 132 h. The verifications of TEPS during the quasi-operational period from May to December 2007 indicate that the ensemble mean track predictions statistically have better performance as compared with the control (nonperturbed) predictions: the error...