Tornado Pathlength Forecasts from 2010 to 2011 Using Ensemble Updraft Helicity

被引：75

作者：

Clark, Adam J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Gao, Jidong ^{[2
]}

Marsh, Patrick T. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Smith, Travis ^{[1
,2
]}

Kain, John S. ^{[2
]}

Correia, James, Jr. ^{[1
,4
]}

Xue, Ming ^{[3
,5
]}

Kong, Fanyou ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oklahoma, Cooperat Inst Mesoscale Meteorol Studies, Norman, OK 73019 USA

[2] NOAA OAR Natl Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK USA

[3] Univ Oklahoma, Sch Meteorol, Norman, OK 73019 USA

[4] NOAA Storm Predict Ctr, Norman, OK USA

[5] Univ Oklahoma, Ctr Anal & Predict Storms, Norman, OK 73019 USA

来源：

WEATHER AND FORECASTING | 2013年 / 28卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION; VARIATIONAL STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE CLOSURE-MODEL; PREDICTION SYSTEM ARPS; YAMADA LEVEL-3 MODEL; PART I; REGIONAL PREDICTION; MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION; RECURSIVE FILTERS; NUMERICAL ASPECTS;

D O I：

10.1175/WAF-D-12-00038.1

中图分类号：

P4 [大气科学（气象学）];

学科分类号：

0706 ; 070601 ;

摘要：

Examining forecasts from the Storm Scale Ensemble Forecast (SSEF) system run by the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms for the 2010 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment, recent research diagnosed a strong relationship between the cumulative pathlengths of simulated rotating storms (measured using a three-dimensional object identification algorithm applied to forecast updraft helicity) and the cumulative pathlengths of tornadoes. This paper updates those results by including data from the 2011 SSEF system, and illustrates forecast examples from three major 2011 tornado outbreaks-16 and 27 April, and 24 May-as well as two forecast failure cases from June 2010. Finally, analysis updraft helicity (UH) from 27 April 2011 is computed using a three-dimensional variational data assimilation system to obtain 1.25-km grid-spacing analyses at 5-min intervals and compared to forecast UH from individual SSEF members.

引用

页码：387 / 407

页数：21

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