Kalman Filtering-Based Probabilistic Nowcasting of Object-Oriented Tracked Convective Storms
Kalman Filtering-Based Probabilistic Nowcasting of Object-Oriented Tracked Convective Storms
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基于卡尔曼滤波的面向对象跟踪对流风暴概率临近预报
DOI:
10.1175/jtech-d-14-00184.1
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
D. Moisseev
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作者:
P. Rossi;V. Chandrasekar;V. Hasu;D. Moisseev
AbstractThe weather radar–based object-oriented convective storm tracking is a standard approach for analyzing and nowcasting convective storms. However, the majority of current storm-tracking algorithms provide nowcasts only in a deterministic fashion with limited ability to estimate the related uncertainties.This paper proposes a method for probabilistic nowcasting of convective storms that addresses the issue of uncertainty of nowcasts. The approach first utilizes a two-dimensional radar-based storm identification and tracking algorithm in conjunction with the Kalman filtering of noisy measurements of storm centroid with the continuous white noise acceleration model. The resulting smoothed estimates of storm centroid and velocity components and their error covariance values are then applied to nowcast the probability of storm occurrence.To verify the approach, 20–60-min nowcasts were computed every 5 min using composite weather radar data in Finland including approximately 22 000 tracked storms. The ve...