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Application of M-estimators method on FY-3B/IRAS channel brightness temperature generalized variational assimilation

  • role： First author第一作者
  • Affiliation：

    Anhui Meteorological Information Centre, Hefei 230031, China

  • Email：203wanggen@163.com
  • Introduction：王根(1983—    )，男，博士，工程师，研究方向为卫星资料同化、GRAPES数值模拟和多源数据融合。E-mail：203wanggen@163.com
WANG Gen1,  
  • Affiliation：

    Center of Data Assimilation for Research and Application, School of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing 210044, China

TANG Fei2,  
  • Affiliation：

    Anhui Meteorological Information Centre, Hefei 230031, China

LIU Xiaobei1,  
  • Affiliation：

    Anhui Meteorological Information Centre, Hefei 230031, China

QIU Kangjun1,  
  • Affiliation：

    Anhui Meteorological Information Centre, Hefei 230031, China

WEN Huayang1

résumé

This study adopts the Infrared Atmospheric Sounder of Feng-Yun and the 3rd(B) Weather Satellite(FY-3B/IRAS) brightness temperature to investigate the generalized variational assimilation, which combines the advantages of classical variational assimilation and robust M-estimators. Classical variational assimilation is based on the model variables and satellite observations of the brightness temperature to yield a quadratic functional minimization. The observational errors are needed to follow a Gaussian distribution and subsequently apply the least-square principle. The least-squares method is sensitive to outliers; if the analyzed data contain gross errors, the parameter estimation will be inaccurate. The classical variational assimilation consists of two stages. First, an appropriate algorithm is used to identify and address outliers in the data and then, the assimilation. This approach may result in the loss of useful data because the outliers are not always harmful; some outliers may represent new information, such as weather phenomena. At present, the quality control is generally based on a certain threshold value if the subjective uncertainty is too strong. If outliers persist after the quality control, the optimal parametric results that are obtained through classical variational assimilation become meaningless.M-estimators are added to the framework of classical variational assimilation to obtain a generalized variational assimilation, which is coupled with quality control in the process of assimilation. The main idea is to use the weight factor of M-estimators to re-estimate the contribution rate of the observation items to the objective function in each process of objective function minimization based on classical variational assimilation. The cost function consists of M-estimators to guarantee the robustness to outliers. Thus, the assimilation results are improved. Humidity is an important dynamic variable in the NWP model. It does not only determine the occurrence of precipitation but also changes the temperature through evaporation and condensation, and it also influences the wind field by changing the pressure gradient. In addition, the nonlinearity of humidity is stronger than temperature, which causes the humidity to follow a stronger non-Gaussian distribution. Thus, humidity was used as an assimilation experiment effect validation, and the correlation coefficient of humidity was compared with FNL and GDAS, which are assimilated by different M-estimator weights. The specific operation process that is based on the FNL as the background field adopts classical and different weight factors of M-estimators to the variational assimilation of FY-3B/IRAS. In addition, the correlation between the analyzed field, and the GDAS is compared. The correlation between 13 GPS/PWV stations of Anhui province and the integral humidity profile of the relevant field from both GDAS/PWV and FNL/PWV is evaluated. Furthermore, based on the information entropy of freedom degrees, the contribution of IRAS 20 channels were determined to analyze the field for nearly a month. Preliminary results demonstrate the potential application value of the generalized variational assimilation.

mots-clés

generalized variational assimilation;M-estimators;NCEP/FNL;precipitable water vapor;freedom degrees of information entropy

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