Assimilation of wind data from airborne Doppler cloud-profiling radar in a kilometre-scale NWP system

Mary Borderies 1 Olivier Caumont 1 Julien Delanoë 2 Véronique Ducrocq 1 Nadia Fourrié 1
1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 SPACE - LATMOS
LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
Abstract : The article reports on the impact of the assimilation of wind vertical profile data in a kilometre-scale NWP system on predicting heavy precipitation events in the northwestern Mediterranean area. The data collected in diverse conditions by the airborne W-band radar RASTA (Radar Airborne System Tool for Atmosphere) during a 45-day period are assimilated in the 3 h 3DVAR assimilation system of AROME. The impact of the length of the assimilation window is investigated. The data assimilation experiments are performed for a heavy rainfall event, which occurred over southeastern France on 26 September 2012 (IOP7a) and over a 45-day cycled period. Results indicate that the quality of the rainfall accumulation forecasts increases with the length of the assimilation window, which recommends using observations with a large period centred on the assimilation time. The positive impact of the assimilation of RASTA wind data is particularly evidenced for the IOP7a case since results indicate an improvement in the predicted wind at short-term ranges (2 and 3 h) and in the 11 h precipitation forecasts. However, in the 45-day cycled period, the comparison against other assimilated observations shows an overall neutral impact. Results are still encouraging since a slight positive improvement in the 5, 8 and 11 h precipitation forecasts was demonstrated.
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Mary Borderies, Olivier Caumont, Julien Delanoë, Véronique Ducrocq, Nadia Fourrié. Assimilation of wind data from airborne Doppler cloud-profiling radar in a kilometre-scale NWP system. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, European Geosciences Union, 2019, 19 (4), pp.821-835. ⟨10.5194/nhess-19-821-2019⟩. ⟨hal-02121176⟩

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