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Ha-Taek Kwon

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Proceedings Article | 22 December 2004 Paper

Impact of GPS-derived precipitable water on simulating a mesoscale convective system over the Korean peninsula: application of MM5 4DVAR system

Ha-Taek Kwon, Gyu-Ho Lim

Proceedings Volume 5661, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580422

KEYWORDS: Global Positioning System, Data modeling, Coastal modeling, Atmospheric modeling, Meteorology, Error analysis, Clouds, Performance modeling, Atmospheric sensing, Systems modeling

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Precipitable water is a powerful constraint in both synoptic analysis and numerical weather prediction, because precipitable water provides an estimate of the available moisture that fuels convection and thunderstorms. As it has been shown that the vertically integrated water vapor can be determined from the GPS signal delay due to atmospheric water vapor, the GPS water vapor sensing technique has been developed and applied for study of the impact of GPS water vapor observations on short-range forecast of convective weather system. In this study, the data assimilation experiment of GPS-derived precipitable water was carried out using the MM5 four-dimensional variational data assimilation (4DVAR) system in order to investigate the impact of GPS-derived precipitable water on simulating a mesoscale convective system over the Korean Peninsula. During 3-h assimilation window, we assimilated the precipitable water derived from the zenith wet delay of GPS signals for five GPS stations into the model. The MM5 4DVAR system successfully assimilated GPS-derived precipitable water observations for a strong mesoscale convective system. We confirmed that the moisture fields and wind fields dynamically consistent with a given GPS-derived precipitable water information in assimilation window. The adjustments of GPS-derived precipitable water to the model initial condition by the 4DVAR procedure were all within reasonable ranges and the optimal initial condition was created. Although we have used just five points GPS-derived precipitable water, the moisture contents provided by a given GPS-derived precipitable water information through 4DVAR procedure increased total rainfall amount significantly. The assimilation of GPS-derived precipitable water observations may have a potential ability to improve rainfall forecast over the Korean Peninsula.

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