Effects of Synoptic Surveillance on model forecasts for
15 September 2004 0000 UTC
Ivan.
Quicktime movie of AVN DLM wind model
forecast
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| MODEL | 12 h | 24 h | 36 h | 48 h | 60 h | 72 h | 84 h | 96 h | 108 h | 120 h
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| AVNN | 35 | 67 | 69 | 120 | 247 | 385 | 686 | 802 | 821 | 944
| AVNO | 30 | 39 | 83 | 117 | 233 | 312 | 594 | 743 | 725 | 805
| %IMP | 14% | 42% | -20% | 2% | 6% | 19% | 13% | 7% | 12% | 15%
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| GFNO | 32 | 44 | 65 | 138 | 266 | 393 | 646 | 811 | 948 | 1062
| GFDL | 15 | 30 | 44 | 122 | 228 | 371 | 637 | 766 | 941 | 1021
| %IMP | 53% | 32% | 32% | 12% | 11% | 6% | 1% | 6% | 1% | 4%
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| INTENSITY (kt)
| MODEL | 12 h | 24 h | 36 h | 48 h | 60 h | 72 h | 84 h | 96 h | 108 h | 120 h
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| AVNN | -30 | -33 | 5 | -2 | -1 | -2 | 3 | -20 | -20 | -21
| AVNO | -34 | -33 | 5 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 4 | -21 | -24 | -22
| %IMP | -13% | 0% | 0% | 100% | -100% | 0% | -33% | -5% | -20% | -5%
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| GFNO | 10 | -4 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 28 | 8 | 7 | -3
| GFDL | 14 | -2 | 36 | 16 | 9 | 22 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 0
| %IMP | -40% | 50% | -6% | -14% | 10% | -38% | -7% | -25% | -13% | 100%
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| 16/0650 UTC 30.2N 87.9W Near Pine Beach, AL 31.0 h into the forecast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MODEL | LAT | LON | TIME | ERROR | LOCATION
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| AVNN | 30.70 | 87.93 | 35.5 | 55.6 | Mobile, AL
| AVNO | 30.33 | 88.13 | 34.0 | 26.4 | Dauphin Island, AL
| %IMP | 33% | 53%
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| GFNO | 30.38 | 88.29 | 33.0 | 41.6 | Pascagoula, MS
| GFDL | 30.50 | 88.12 | 33.0 | 39.4 | Dauphin Island, AL
| %IMP | 0% | 5%
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Figure 1. NCEP 850 - 200 hPa mean wind analysis for 15 September 2004 0000 UTC (Hurricane Ivan).
Figure 2. Track forecasts for the no dropwindsonde (NO or NN) and the all dropwindsonde (AL) runs for the AVN and GFDL models initialized on 15 September 2004 0000 UTC.
Figure 3. NCEP Global Ensemble Predction System track forecasts for all cyclones in the Atlantic basin initialized from 13 September 2004 0600 UTC to 14 September 2004 0000 UTC, showing the tracks of Hurricane Ivan.
Figure 4. Ensemble perturbation variance at the nominal sampling time 15 September 2004 0000 UTC from the previous day NCEP ensemble forecast. The green circles represent the dropwindsonde locations.
Figure 5. Variance explained within the verification region (large red circle) for observations taken at the sampling time 15 September 2004 0000 UTC from the Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter run from the previous day NCEP ensemble forecast. The green circles represent the dropwindsonde locations.
Figure 6. Initial condition differences in the 850 - 200 hPa mean wind between the no and all dropwindsonde cases for 15 September 2004 0000 UTC. The circles represent the dropwindsonde locations.
