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Balanced Coupling Between Vertical Motion and Diabatic Forcing for Variational Data Assimilation. Luc Fillion Collaborators: Monique Tanguay, Nils Ek, Christian Page, Simon Pellerin, Michel Desgagne Meteorological Service Canada Dorval, Québec, Canada.
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Balanced Coupling Between Vertical Motion and Diabatic Forcing for Variational Data Assimilation Luc Fillion Collaborators: Monique Tanguay, Nils Ek, Christian Page, Simon Pellerin, Michel Desgagne Meteorological Service Canada Dorval, Québec, Canada
Development of a Limited Area VDAS(Main Focus: Precipitation) Unified Global/LA Variational analysis code. Main features (at the present time: 1st Sept 2005): 1. Extension of Meso3D-Var to 4D-Var (june 2005). 2. Coupling of Divergence and Mass fields using Moist Diabatic Balance Operators directly in the Variational Analysis.
500 hPa wind analysis increments: FGAT Versus 4D-Var 1 UU-Obs at 500 hPa at 0h
Meso 4DVar wind analysis increments at 500 hPa Time Assimilation window: 6h
Adiabatic Balance (Mike Fisher’s approach at ECMWF) ------------------------
Diabatic Balance (Kasahara & Krishnamurti’s dream!) ------------------------
Diabatic Balance Included 24 August 2004; 12 UTC
Kain-Fritsch Temperature Tendency 500hPa 850 hPa
RHS Convective Forcing of w Equation Mesovar_L: 50 km; 58 Levels
Summary: Benefits of the coupling 1. Better I.C. for NWP over diabatic regions. 2. Spin-up effects should be reduced 3. Can improve Precipitation Assimilation 4. Can potentially be extended down to Kilometric XD-Var Data Assimilation; i.e. See Christian Page ‘s talk at 12h45 !
Regional model