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GPS - Zenith Total Delay assimilation in different resolution simulations of a heavy precipitation event over southern France / Alberto Caldas-Álvarez in Advances in Science and Research, vol 14 (2017)    

Public [article]  inAdvances in Science and Research > vol 14 (2017) . - pp 157 - 162 Titre : GPS - Zenith Total Delay assimilation in different resolution simulations of a heavy precipitation event over southern France Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Alberto Caldas-Álvarez, Auteur ; Samiro Khodayar, Auteur ; Olivier Bock , Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Projets : HyMeX / Richard, Evelyne Conférence : EMS 2016, 16th European Meteorological Society annual meeting 12/09/2016 16/09/2016 Trieste Italie Projets : IODA-Med / Richard, Evelyne, REMEMBER / Drobinski, Philippe Article en page(s) : pp 157 - 162 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] distribution spatiale [Termes IGN] humidité de l'air [Termes IGN] précipitation [Termes IGN] retard troposphérique zénithal [Termes IGN] teneur intégrée en vapeur d'eau Résumé : (auteur) The aim of this study is to investigate the different pathways of the interaction between an improved atmospheric moisture distribution by Data Assimilation (DA) of Global Positioning System Zenith Total Delays (GPS-ZTD) on the simulation of a selected Heavy Precipitation Event (HPE) across different model horizontal resolutions (7 km, 2.8 km and 500 m). The initiation and evolution of deep moist convection and heavy precipitation taking place on the 24 September 2012, which had a dedicated Intensive Observation Period (IOP6) during the Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment (HyMeX) Special Observation period 1, are analysed. The results show an improvement in the representation of the Integrated Water Vapour (IWV) spatial distribution and temporal evolution when the data assimilation is applied as well as through the refinement of the model grids. However, important discrepancies between the simulated and the observed vertical profiles of humidity still remain after the DA, thus affecting the representation of convection and heavy precipitation. For the presented case study, the model simulations exhibited a wet bias. The assimilation entailed a drying of the low to middle troposphere over the study region during the 6 h prior to the storm initiation for every horizontal resolution. This reduced the instability present at the moment of storm initiation, weakening in return the intensity of convection and the number of cells triggered. The improvement observed in the atmospheric moisture content and distribution was not followed by an improved precipitation representation closer to observations. This highlights the relevance of correctly distributing the assimilated IWV in the vertical direction in the models. Numéro de notice : A2017-862 Affiliation des auteurs : LASTIG LAREG+Ext (2012-mi2018) Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.5194/asr-14-157-2017 Date de publication en ligne : 13/06/2017 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-14-157-2017 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=89849 [article]

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