Northern tools and data for model comparisons

Northern tools and data for model comparisons

Northern tools and data for model comparisons
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Laura Rontu, FMI laura [email protected]
Zhenya Atlaskin, RSHU [email protected]
Timo Vihma, FMI [email protected]
Kalle Eerola, FMI [email protected]
Nastya Senkova, RSHU [email protected]
Markku Kangas, FMI [email protected]
December 10, 2005
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How to validate a new scheme?
Standard station verification
Details of bias
Introduction to Sodankylä
Sounding comparison
Mast comparison
Further possibilities
How to validate a new scheme?
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How to validate a new scheme?
Northern winter problem
In the model, too warm predicted near-surface temperatures in a stable
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arctic boundary layer. Differences between observation and forecast of
the order of ten degrees are common. In reality, clear sky, no
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significant SW radiation, shallow surface layer with strong surface
temperature inversion over snow covered surface. Relative humidity
may be large but not close to saturation. Observed latent and sensible
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heat fluxes are small, in the model generally somewhat larger. Extra
clouds/fog may form in HIRLAM.
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SFS: a possible element of the solution
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SFS: a possible element of the solution
• Snow - Forest - Scheme by Stefan Gollvik et al.
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• Detailed handling of interactions
in (snow covered) forest and open land
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• ISBA framework with diffusion equation in soil
partly based on the old HIRLAM surface scheme
developed for the Rossby Centre Climate Model
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• references: Norrköping SRNWP workshop, Sodankylä summer school
SFS: a possible element of the solution
• Snow - Forest - Scheme by Stefan Gollvik et al.
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• Detailed handling of interactions
in (snow covered) forest and open land
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• ISBA framework with diffusion equation in soil
partly based on the old HIRLAM surface scheme
developed for the Rossby Centre Climate Model
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• references: Norrköping SRNWP workshop, Sodankylä summer school
The scheme is ready for one-dimensional and three-dimensional comparisons
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How to know if it solves our problem?
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Standard station verification
Verification statistics
against Scn observations
40E (left) OMA (right)
Period: 20050101 - 20050131
Surface pressure
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Forecast length (hours)
Ten metre wind
Mean speed and RMS vector error (m/s)
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Forecast length (hours)
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BIAS
RMS
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BIAS
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Two metre relative humidity
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Forecast length (hours)
Mean and RMS error (%)
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Mean and RMS error (hPa)
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Two metre temperature
Mean and RMS error (K)
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Forecast length (hours)
ZOBS or details of the bias (1)
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ZOBS (2)
Verification statistics
Verification statistics
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Verification
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experiment
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Period + fc length:
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Period + fc length: 200501+024
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wind(C)
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pressure
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lassified and accumulated bias (%)
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Classified and accumulated bias (m/s)
Ten metre
wind
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temperature
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Mean sea level pressure
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lassified and accumulated bias (%)
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observations
WMO022221
Verification
statistics
experiment
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observations WMO022221
Period + fc length:
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Details of the bias (3)
Verification statistics
Verification statistics
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Verification
statistics
experiment
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Period + fc length: 200501+000
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wind(C)
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temperature
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pressure
(hPa)
lassified and accumulated bias (m/s)
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Classified and accumulated bias (m/s)
Ten metre
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Observed temperature
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Observed pressure
accum
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Classified and accumulated bias (hPa)
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accum
Two metre temperature
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temperature
sea level pressure
Classified and accumulated bias (hPa)
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Classified and accumulated bias (hPa)
Mean sea level pressure
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Period + fc length: 200501+000
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observations
WMO022122
Verification
statistics
experiment
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Period + fc length:
200501+000
experiment
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Two metre relative humidity
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Introduction to Sodankylä - FMI ARC
What makes Sodankylä observations interesting?
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Introduction to Sodankylä - FMI ARC
What makes Sodankylä observations interesting?
Boreal - subarctic enviroment
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• (long-living) Stable boundary layer, cold Ts
• Boreal forest, snow, low solar elevations
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Introduction to Sodankylä - FMI ARC
What makes Sodankylä observations interesting?
Boreal - subarctic enviroment
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• (long-living) Stable boundary layer, cold Ts
• Boreal forest, snow, low solar elevations
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Unique combination of measurements
• Sounding data
• Mast measurements: profiles and fluxes
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• AWS - SYNOP data + ceilometer
• Soil and snow temperature measurements
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• Radar measurements within 40 km
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Introduction to Sodankylä - FMI ARC
What makes Sodankylä observations interesting?
Boreal - subarctic enviroment
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• (long-living) Stable boundary layer, cold Ts
• Boreal forest, snow, low solar elevations
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Unique combination of measurements
• Sounding data
• Mast measurements: profiles and fluxes
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• AWS - SYNOP data + ceilometer
• Soil and snow temperature measurements
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• Radar measurements within 40 km
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Operational and continuous observations
• Used for operational monitoring
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Sounding comparisons
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Sounding v.s. model as a function of temperature
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Data for SCM
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Data for SCM
• Sounding data as initial profile
• HIRLAM experiment data as initial profile
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• Observed fluxes etc as lower boundary condition
Data for SCM
• Sounding data as initial profile
• HIRLAM experiment data as initial profile
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• Observed fluxes etc as lower boundary condition
Tools to pick HIRLAM profile in ASCII
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Tools to write ASCII input based on HIRLAM profile
Tools to handle sounding data
Mast comparisons
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How to make the sounding and mast comparison pictures?
Raw material
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How to make the sounding and mast comparison pictures?
Raw material
• Sodankylä soundings - ASCII tables
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• Mast profiles: T, RH, wind
- raw observation ASCII files
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• Mast fluxes: senf, latf, momf, SWdn, SWup, LWup
- raw observation ASCII files
• (LWdown separate measurements
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- raw observation ASCII files)
• HIRLAM analyses and forecast
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- GRIB files, possibly subareas/ASCII profiles
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Tools
• Main shell scripts RunSounding, RunMast
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• Fortran programmes interpol.f90 and sodaconv.f90
• ( Tools to pick subareas and profiles from HIRLAM )
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• Grads scripts for drawing
Tools
• Main shell scripts RunSounding, RunMast
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• Fortran programmes interpol.f90 and sodaconv.f90
• ( Tools to pick subareas and profiles from HIRLAM )
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• Grads scripts for drawing
Output
• Readable converted and interpolated ASCII data
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- for drawing, reading, calculations
• Grads pictures
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Further possibilities
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Further possibilities
• Surface energy balance studies
• Radiation balance and clouds
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• Comparison of snow and soil temperatures
• High temporal resolution AWS data
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• Mast data for surface layer studies, e.g.:
stability dependency of roughness
definition of PBL height based on fluxes
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• High resolution sounding data for PBL studies
• Combination of FMI ARC data with Luosto radar
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Further possibilities
• Surface energy balance studies
• Radiation balance and clouds
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• Comparison of snow and soil temperatures
• High temporal resolution AWS data
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• Mast data for surface layer studies, e.g.:
stability dependency of roughness
definition of PBL height based on fluxes
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• High resolution sounding data for PBL studies
• Combination of FMI ARC data with Luosto radar
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Need for a Sodankylä Data and Tool Base !
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